Reaction to my Milloy post
There has been quite a bit of reaction to my post on Milloy. Michael Peckham writes “Milloy’s criticism may be right some of the time, but only when it fits his preconceived anti-regulatory agenda. ”...
View ArticleFlypaper for innumerates
Yet another person has tried to refute the Lancet article. John Brignell dismisses the study just because: A relative risk of 1.5 is not acceptable as significant. Actually the increased risk was...
View ArticleBrignell, again
John Brignell has an odd response (scroll down to “Hit Parade”) to some of my criticism. He doesn’t link, or dare to even mention my name, so it’s probably rather mystifying to his readers what he is...
View ArticleThe Great DDT Hoax
Anti-environmentalist writers frequently claim that after DDT had all but eliminated malaria from Sri Lanka, environmentalist pressure forced Sri Lanka to ban DDT, leading to a resurgence of malaria:...
View ArticleBiased survey
To mark the centenary of the publication of Einstein’s famous equation, Spiked has surveyed over 250 renowned scientists, science communicators, and educators – including 11 Nobel laureates – asking...
View ArticleBrignell’s Law of Scientific Consensus
Our old friend John Brignell has uncovered “The greatest conspiracy in human history”. According to Brignell that’s what global warming is, and: It is not that the proponents are simply mistaken—that...
View ArticleBrignell vs Source Watch
The Source Watch wiki page on John Brignell quotes extensively from some of my criticisms of Brignell. Rather than address this criticism, Brignell edited the page to add this comment: What follows is...
View ArticleChris Mooney is persuasive
Bob Carroll learns from Chis Mooney about the relative risk scam. He writes I owe an apology to readers of this newsletter. In April 2004, I wrote the first of several commentaries on Penn &...
View ArticleBrignell vs Wikipedia
Last year I wrote how John Brignell repeatedly tried to add untrue claims to the Sourcewatch article on Brignell because it was critical of him. Now he is complaining about his Wikipedia article:...
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