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Back in 1996 the Australian Press Council upheld a complaint against The Courier Mail under editor Chris Mitchell for printing a nutty story that historian Manning Clark was an agent of the Soviet Union who had been awarded the Order...
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Posted on December 5, 2008 12:29 PM • 8 Comments
Jennifer Marohasy has posted a list of the "ten worst blog posts". Tamino and Eli Rabett are crowing are crowing because they got number one and two and the best I could do was number six. Cohenite, the guy who...
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Posted on November 3, 2008 11:53 AM • 36 Comments
Via Gummo Trotsky, the latest argument posted by Jennifer Marohasy: Radiative equilibrium is one of the foundation stones of radiative forcing theory. But it is not a law of physics, only a rather archaic and untested supposition found in climatology...
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Posted on August 16, 2008 3:04 PM • 82 Comments
Andrew Bolt should have been embarrassed with his unthinking linking, but he is unrepentant: If someone claims to find 24 mistakes in your work and you manage to kind-of defend just three, it might be wiser to actually stay quiet....
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Posted on June 11, 2008 2:41 PM • 14 Comments
On the essential Missing Link, Ken Parish links to my post of yesterday: Tim Lambert ably defends himself on scientific grounds against a concerted attack by anti-science RWDB "heavyweights". And explains the scare quotes: I wrote that extract. Blair...
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Posted on June 10, 2008 3:48 PM • 12 Comments
Glenn Reynolds, Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt are prolific bloggers, posting several posts each day. With such frequent posting they don't seem to have time to check to see if they stuff they link to is correct. They don't accept...
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Posted on June 9, 2008 3:31 PM • 32 Comments
Last year Graham Young, accused me of being blatantly dishonest for writing that Peiser had admitted to making multiple errors, even though Peiser had confirmed this in an email to Young. He ended up writing 20 comments denying Peiser's admission....
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Posted on May 19, 2008 12:40 PM • 35 Comments
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
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
