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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
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August 31, 2006
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The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. When Mayla Hernandez saw news of a double homicide Friday night, the circumstances seemed too familiar. She told the Sheriff's Office her boyfriend John Dorsey called her to pick him up around 12:30 a.m. Saturday...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:15 PM • 16 Comments
Category: Skeptics Circle
The answer is the 42nd Skeptic's Circle. My favourite post from the circle: Jon Swift says Science is Dead....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:46 PM • 1 Comments
August 30, 2006
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Maria Farell asks about ipod alternatives. I have an Iriver H120 which I'm very fond of. The only drawback to Iriver is that while their hardware is better than Apple's, their firmware leaves something to be desired. But you can...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:11 PM • 5 Comments
August 29, 2006
Category: Global Warming
The graph below shows the predictions of James Hansen's 1988 climate model overlaid (in blue) with observed temperatures. Hansen's scenarios B and C have turned out to be very good predictions of what actually happened. Of course, it is an...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:20 PM • 207 Comments
August 28, 2006
Category: stupidity
Robyn Williams has written a book debunking Intelligent Design. Tim Blair's reaction (endorsed by Glenn Reynolds): He doesn't see anything wrong with Intelligent Design, but why didn't Williams write a book on the flaws in Fundamentalist Islam?....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:35 PM • 35 Comments
August 27, 2006
Category: Steyn
John Holbo finds this piece of stupidity from Mark Steyn: Ann Coulter's new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a rollicking read very tightly reasoned and hard to argue with. After all, the progressive mind regards it as backward...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:28 PM • 13 Comments
August 24, 2006
Category: Global Warming • timball
Charles Montgomery's excellent expose of the so-called "Friends of Science" group must have really hit a nerve, because it has drawn an over-the-top response from Terence Corcoran in the National Post. It appears that Corcoran was so incensed by it...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:31 PM • 14 Comments
August 23, 2006
Category: patmichaels
The buck passing continues in the case of Pat Michaels and the office of Virginia State Climatologist. The State of Virginia has passed it back to UVa. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: Katherine K. Hanley, the secretary of the commonwealth, wrote...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:57 AM • 10 Comments
August 22, 2006
Category: stupidity
There is the "Anti (this) War (now)" position. And there is the "Anti-Most Wars Most of the Time" position. And there is Tim Blair's "Pro War All the Time" position: now right-wing monks are launching themselves at Sri Lankan...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:11 PM • 10 Comments
August 21, 2006
Category: Levitt
Michael Shermer's September column in Scientific American is on Lott's lawsuit. He got some comments from both Lott and Levitt:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:42 PM • 10 Comments
August 18, 2006
Category: Global Warming
William Connolley writes about a dodgy-sounding conference on global warming. (Jaworowski is presenting, for example.) In comments the organizer, Peter Stilbs, explained:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:54 PM • 8 Comments
August 17, 2006
Category: Skeptics Circle
Interverbal has put together the 41st Skeptics circle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:50 PM • 0 Comments
August 16, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Don Boudreaux says that we shouldn't try to prevent global warming because Capitalism produces so much food that we are never malnourished; it produces ample clothing and sturdy homes to protect us from the elements; it produces the soaps, shampoos,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:05 PM • 121 Comments
August 15, 2006
Category: patmichaels
Kevin Lynch has interesting pair of posts investigating Pat Michaels. First, it looks like Michaels isn't really Virginia's State Climatologist. Second, Michaels has serious conflict of interest, not just because the State of Virginia and fossil fuel companies have conflicting...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:38 PM • 2 Comments
August 14, 2006
Category: DDT
I've stated before that folks who peddle the DDT ban myth tend to be those who don't believe in evolution and hence don't believe that mosquitoes can evolve resistance to DDT. One or two commenters felt that I was trying...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:14 PM • 21 Comments
August 13, 2006
Category: Global Warming • timball
Charles Montgomery has a detailed expose in the Globe and Mail on the activities of Tim Ball and the Friends of Science. It turns out that the University of Calgary has been used to launder oil company money to fund...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:47 AM • 32 Comments
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