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Mark Steyn on the trouble he has with facts: Incidentally, I stopped writing for the [New York] Times a few years ago because their fanatical "fact-checking" copy-editors edited my copy into unreadable sludge. I think it's some sort of chemical...
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Posted on September 29, 2007 2:47 PM • 173 Comments
If I summarized Glenn Reynold's response to my post on his hyping of a small correction to GISS data, you would not believe me, so I'm quoting the whole thing: Lamberted! But no Instalanche. Later: In an update: "Matthew Yglesias...
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Posted on August 17, 2007 3:09 PM • 28 Comments
Warning: This post concerns an inter-blog fight. Skip unless you find this stuff interesting....
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Posted on July 2, 2007 1:37 PM • 39 Comments
In Tim Blair's latest column he takes a swing at scientists: I did, however, turn up an intriguing claim, in a non-specialist journal -- possibly an old encyclopaedia. There it was stated that cricket balls do not -- could...
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Posted on June 2, 2007 1:32 PM • 21 Comments
After Team Blair was beaten by six year old Ryan Gwin, Tim Blair tried to rewrite history: Nine-year-old Sydney boy Ryan Gwin suffers anxiety over the fuel consumed by his father's bus; Because if Ryan had really been nine...
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Posted on April 29, 2007 2:14 PM • 8 Comments
Glenn Reynolds accuses me of quote doctoring, linking to this utterly conclusive proof by JF Beck: Lambert himself engages in selective out-of-context quoting in attempting to refute Berlau's assertion that Paul Ehrlich advocated the forced sterilization of all Indian men...
Posted on April 22, 2007 2:55 PM • 53 Comments
Back in 2004, Glenn Reynolds declared that the election here in Australia was in no small part a referendum on the Iraq war. This was wrong, as anyone who was here at the time could tell you. So, I posted...
Posted on April 17, 2007 2:39 PM • 11 Comments
Commentator 1: Hello, and welcome to a special Good Friday edition of INTELLECTUAL CAGE MATCH. Today we have a great match up for you. The topic is Global Warming and it's the collective wisdom of Tim Blair's commenters against Ryan...
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Posted on April 6, 2007 11:37 AM • 16 Comments
to Robert Merkel. (Via missing link.)...
Posted on April 5, 2007 4:20 AM • 1 Comments
From episode 2 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Narrator: The Encyclopaedia Galactica defines a robot as "a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man". The Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot...
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Posted on March 6, 2007 7:34 AM • 34 Comments
There's pathological denial and there's super-duper-pathological denial. In comments to my post at On Line Opinion OLO editor Graham Young has now written 20 comments denying that Peiser admitted to making multiple errors. This Media Watch report? "And when we...
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Posted on February 7, 2007 4:15 AM • 11 Comments
I must be really important because Glenn Reynolds has made a specious attack on me based on something I wrote, not in a post, but in a comment on another blog. I wrote that the sea level projections in...
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Posted on February 3, 2007 9:04 AM • 68 Comments
There's denial and there's pathological denial. In comments to my post at On Line Opinion OLO editor Graham Young has continued to deny that Peiser admitted to making multiple errors. The latest bit of denial: "To say he concedes, when...
Posted on January 29, 2007 10:42 PM • 16 Comments
Remember, the piñata is only deployed when Blair produces another nugget of stupid after being beaten with a clue stick. So let's look at the nuggets we got from Blair this time: Chinatown seems not to have been burned...
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Posted on January 9, 2007 10:33 AM • 63 Comments
American student Kunthea Ker wrote how she was verbally abused at Sydney's New Year fireworks because of who she was. Tim Blair's response? He accuses her of lying....
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Posted on January 7, 2007 10:01 AM • 34 Comments
Lindsay Beyerstein spanks Tim Blair: Having dismissed statistical reasoning, Tim Blair goes on to reject peer review. It's amazing the lengths some folks will go to avoid believing that the invasion of Iraq killed hundreds of thousands of people....
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Posted on October 14, 2006 12:43 PM • 12 Comments
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
