The scandal of private listservs
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Glenn Reynolds says that a private listserv is a "scandal", despite having participated in such a thing himself.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Windschuttle hoaxed, the update
Category: politics
Windschuttle is still denying that he was hoaxed.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:19 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Maybe getting public policy advice from SF writers is not a good idea
Category: politics
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 by Tim Lambert at 3:12 PM • 26 Comments •
Reality catches up with the Australian
Category: politics
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:10 PM • 39 Comments •
Slap happy Overington
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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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:28 AM • 5 Comments •
Climate Politics in Australia
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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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:33 PM • 2 Comments •
Caroline Overington uses "only joking" defence
Category: politics
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,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:24 AM • 19 Comments •
Dodgy News Limited survey
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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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:26 PM • 12 Comments •
Joining the dots on an anti-Gore story
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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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:19 AM • 139 Comments •
Barton and Inhofe
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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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:27 PM • 21 Comments •
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