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Via Sadly No!, we find out the latest from the SF authors who helped bring us Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative Now a fixture at Department of Homeland Security science and technology conferences, SIGMA is a loosely affiliated group of science...
Posted on April 30, 2008 3:12 PM • 26 Comments
John Quiggin writes about the culture warmongers: Third, and most importantly, the factoid-based, point-scoring, style of argument that goes with the culture wars eventually leads to complete insulation from factual reality. Any proposition, no matter how ridiculous, can be defended...
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Posted on November 25, 2007 1:10 PM • 39 Comments
Caroline Overington has topped her previous effort with this: Top journalist Caroline Overington has denied hitting George Newhouse, the Labor candidate for the Sydney seat of Wentworth - but he insists he was slapped, and it hurt. ... A Labor...
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Posted on November 25, 2007 9:28 AM • 5 Comments
Via James Hrynyshyn, Nature has a good summary of the state of climate politics in the lead up to Bali. There's even a decent summary of the state of play in Austrlia. Any campaign veteran will tell you that voters...
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Posted on November 16, 2007 12:33 PM • 2 Comments
It's always good value when Media Watch criticizes The Australian because journalists there react with foaming-at-the-mouth outrage. For example, when Media Watch nailed them for misrepresenting Rajenda Pachauri they reacted with 4672 words blasting Media Watch, including the entire editorial,...
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Posted on November 13, 2007 11:24 AM • 19 Comments
A news.com.au story asserts "Australians would re-elect Prime Minister John Howard in a landslide if votes were cast purely on policy - not personality or party loyalty - according to the first results from a "blind voting" tool developed by...
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Posted on October 11, 2007 10:26 PM • 12 Comments
David Roberts shows Your media at work: People magazine reports that Al Gore's daughter Sarah just got married, revealing in the course of the article that Chilean sea bass was served at the rehearsal dinner. In the Daily Telegraph, Australian...
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Posted on July 19, 2007 9:19 AM • 139 Comments
PZ Myers is being a bit "the glass is half empty", but Joe Barton will no longer chair the Committee on Energy and Commerce and James Inhofe will no longer chair the Environment and Public Works Committee. That's good news...
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Posted on November 8, 2006 9:27 PM • 21 Comments
Five nurses and a doctor have been falsely accused of deliberately infecting their patients with HIV. They've been imprisoned and tortured in Libya since 1999 and may now be condemned to death. Declan Butler writes: what is needed is an...
Posted on September 20, 2006 10:12 PM • 9 Comments
The fun never ends with Glenn Reynolds' "steal the oil" post. Tim Blair exclaims: Warming alarmite Tim Lambert (current average daily visits: 3,577) is now demanding $520 per week for ad space at his rarely-viewed site; $3360 for three months!...
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Posted on May 9, 2006 2:55 PM • 25 Comments
Folks are still having fun with Glenn Reynolds' "Let's invade Saudi Arabia and Iran and steal their oil" post. Sean Carroll reckons that the wrongness might be enough to form a singularity. But that can't be right, because the wrongness...
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Posted on May 7, 2006 1:01 PM • 35 Comments
Glenn Reynolds has kept adding updates to his "seize the oilfields" post, including a response to my post that managed to entirely miss my point. (Invading Iraq has reduced its oil production.) The resulting post is rather confused. Fortunately Jim...
Posted on May 4, 2006 1:10 PM • 35 Comments
Glenn Reynolds: Of course, if we seized the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and ran the pumps full speed, oil prices would plummet, dictators would be broke, and poor nations would benefit from cheap energy. Yeah, because that's pretty much...
Posted on May 3, 2006 10:06 AM • 60 Comments
Tim Blair grasps at a straw, I mean perfume sprayer: Frank Gaffney is interviewed by the ABC's Tony Jones, who confidently deploys the "Saddam had no WMD" argument: TONY JONES: Except for the fact as it turns out -- I'm...
Posted on April 6, 2006 1:09 PM • 14 Comments
Here's Silas standing in front of one of the ports that have been sold to Dubai Port World. Don't worry, he'll protect us from the terrorists! Unless they gave him food or something. See Dennis the Peasant or Kevin Drum...
Posted on February 22, 2006 6:23 AM • 2 Comments
Test yourself: can you detect what is dishonest about this argument in a Mirada Devine column about RU486 published in the Sydney Morning Herald today: And, despite the hype about a gender divide in the Senate last week, about the...
Posted on February 16, 2006 5:09 AM • 3 Comments
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
