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By: Can a cynic ever achieve anything?

Can a cynic ever achieve anything? — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:25:05 +0000

[...] I would refer to an earlier answer given here. When your work is visible from space please do come back to [...]

By: David Gillies

David Gillies — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:03:37 +0000

Gene, I once floated the possibility that Murphy was just one of Tim’s fever dreams but it appears he is all too real.

By: gene berman

gene berman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:08:17 +0000

Nobody can be as great an idiot as this Murphy
character hold himself out to be. I’m of the opinion that he’s entirely Tim’s creation–against whom to contrast himself so very favorably. (And, for a bonus, he gets to pawn off the drivel attributed to Murphy to mainstream rags for good money and even better laughs!)
Come to think on it a bit, ain’t it a bit odd that you never find Tim and Polly Toynbee in the same place at the same time? Suspicious, I must say.

By: Inside the mind of a dead salmon « Entitled to an Opinion

Inside the mind of a dead salmon « Entitled to an Opinion — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:21:40 +0000

[...] worried about throwing away good data, presenting both corrected and uncorrected. Hat tip to dearieme at Tim Worstall’s, the scandium [...]

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:49:29 +0000

I think we all agree that we’d rather like there to be non-fossil fuel consuming methods of having transit, travel and energy generation, no?

No.

Anyway, for those of us who have helped construct £24bn worth of oil and gas infrastructure at the arse end of the world, the likes of Richard Murphy claiming “I do action” is worthy of a belly laugh.

By: Dennis The Peasant

Dennis The Peasant — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:46:55 +0000

See Richard Murphy flex his pecs…

See Richard Murphy tear phone books in half with his bare hands…

See Richard Murphy expose the hair on his manly chest…

See Richard Murphy leap tall buildings in a single bound…

By: Dennis The Peasant

Dennis The Peasant — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:45:03 +0000

Richard Murphy…

… Man of Action!

By: Dennis The Peasant

Dennis The Peasant — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:44:41 +0000

The last time I checked, presenting a paper just about anywhere amounted to talk, talk, talk.

By: Kay Tie

Kay Tie — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:40:13 +0000

“He seems to be all over the BBC. He was on a documentary about porn, he’s on one about Lehmans tonight and was on Radio 5 the other day.”

Just wait til next year. The GMG will lose most of its soft revenue, the BBC will have to trim its sails, there’ll be no taxpayer money for fake charities like NEF.

By: dearieme

dearieme — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:27:48 +0000

Do you think that he was used as the dead salmon in this epic of critical scientific thinking?
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/

By: Tim Almond

Tim Almond — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:03:29 +0000

Kay Tie,

He seems to be all over the BBC. He was on a documentary about porn, he’s on one about Lehmans tonight and was on Radio 5 the other day.

A typical example of BBC bias.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:00:41 +0000

You are the source of 50% of the world’s artificial lighting? I just can’t believe it – surely if you were you wouldn’t be seeking a living from writing spam about the sexual predilections of D-list celebrities?

Tim adds: With a couple of qualifications it is in fact true: running a global near monopoly is nowhere near as profitable as some might think.

Most of the light you can see from space comes not from incandescents or fluorescents. It comes mainly from street lighting. And street lights are halogen bulbs, nearly all of which work on a sodium/scandium iodide cycle. I currently handle (more by bookeeping, telephone calls and emails, to be sure, rather than actually malleating it into shape with my hands) 80% of the world supply of scandium to the lighting industry and over the last 15 years that percentage has varied between 80% and 100% pa.

One more detail: you can make some 4 million bulbs from just 1 kg of scandium. So it’s a case of being a very big fish in an extremely tiny pond.

I don’t claim to be the source of 50% of the world’s artificial lighting. Only that 50% of what you can see from space is created with the aid of what I produce (or if you prefer, wholesale, steal from the sweat of the worker’s brows, whatever).

By: JVOC

JVOC — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:00:08 +0000

Handbags at dawn.

By: Newmania

Newmania — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:38:43 +0000

..`s eye operation as well )

Seriously impressive really , sorry about the mitten-ish typing ( he said humbly )

By: Kay Tie

Kay Tie — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:36:08 +0000

Bet Ritchie makes more money than you, Tim (although not for much longer, I suspect).

By: Newmania

Newmania — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:35:37 +0000

Tim , I have som interesting ideas about an everlasting gob stopper can I have sdome money please ( Its my sister

By: PC

PC — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:31:45 +0000

Wow. Pompous little Ritchie just got served!