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Sideshow Roy Spencer
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 21, 2006 The Washington Post reveals that Roy Spencer is the man behind environmentalist parody site ecoEnquirer.com: Somewhere in an office about 600 miles southwest of here, former NASA scientist Roy W. Spencer is laughing. The 50-year-old, white-haired PhD dreamed up the spoof site — sort of the Onion meets the Weather Channel — because he thinks…
Tech Central Station hits new low
Posted by Tim Lambert on August 9, 2005 Long time readers will be aware of what I think of the appalling quality of the writing about science in Tech Central Station. (Examples: Statistics, Fumento, epidemiology physics, economics, more statistics, and more epidemiology. ) Well, they’ve destroyed any remaining credibility they might have had with an article arguing for Intelligent Design Creationism. And it’s…
How widespread is belief in Creationism?
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 14, 2005 Tim Blair writes: Michael Gawenda, The Age’s man in Washington, reports: The majority of Americans believe in creationism rather than evolution. And I bet Gawenda can’t name a single one of them. Also, his data may be a little astray; according to this round-up of polling on the issue, creationism—although widely supported—is yet to reach…
Science Links
Posted by Tim Lambert on March 27, 2005 William Connolley lists another ten global warming myths. PZ Myers delivers a righteous smackdown to Paul from Wizbang for Paul’s profoundly ignorant attacks on evolution. (Paul’s responds by calling evolution a cult.) As well as having totally demolished\* the theory of evolution, Paul has also done for global warming: Which is more plausible: The established…
Another anonymous Amazon reviewer exposed
Posted by Tim Lambert on March 27, 2004 The Panda’s Thumb is an excellent new blog devoted to defending the integrity of science against attacks from creationists. I put it straight into my blog roll. Mark Perakh has a post where he tells a story that should be very familiar to those who know about Lott’s antics at Amazon.com. My book Unintelligent Design…
Steve Milloy, shill
Posted by Tim Lambert on February 13, 2004 Apart from the one or two posts about John Lott I’ve also posted about ozone depletion denial, creationism and astroturf. All these topics, as well as Lott, come together in the person of Steve Milloy. Milloy runs a website junkscience.com that purports to debunk “junk science”. Unsuspecting visitors might think that Milloy’s site is devoted…
Not about Lott or guns
Posted by Tim Lambert on September 17, 2003 Chris Mooney has a very interesting article about the dubious techniques used by creationists to make it appear that there is strong public support for teaching creationism in schools alongside scientific theories. My favourite was this question: Texas law requires students to analyze, review, and critique scientific explanations, including hypotheses and theories, as to their…