William M. Briggs

Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach

Keeping with our Friday Frolic them, this classic post ran originally on 24 November 2015, and it was brought to mind because I have a book review coming out soon…

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What Health Insurance Should Be, But Isn’t

Now that a Health Insurance guy has been whacked, it's time to review. Here is an expanded version of a thread I did on Twitter---which is all a repeat of…

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England Voted To Have Doctors Kill Their Patients

The MPs in the UK passed a bill that will allow doctors to kill their patients. Maybe this is their solution to the rampant immoral immigration they can't make themselves…

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Emergence Is Substance; Entanglement Is Substance: Science Is Healing

There is an idea taking shape, vague but gaining strength, that good things are coming to Science. Science, I say, not academia. Only a cleansing fire will save academia. One…

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The Advent Of Lousy Music

In anticipation that many will be out, or in but out, today, no Class. Instead a topical post which ran originally on 6 December 2017. It will keep on running…

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Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

When Thomas Kuhn released his famous book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962, it riled a lot of people. Mostly those who were wedded to the old way of…

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Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m grateful to all of you, especially those who support my work of freeing Science from gross over-certainty, thankful for what I’ve learned from you, for your patience,…

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Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

Greetings Doomsters. I am graciously grateful to Brother Briggs for allowing me this gesture to you and for you in this histrionically historical moment during Advent -- quite possibly the…

JerryR on Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t PreachDecember 6, 2024
Atheism, materialism, agnosticism, etc., is bankrupt intellectually. Over the last 2 1/2 years, I have been studying belief in a…
Jay on Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t PreachDecember 6, 2024
A person without a belief of a subject, will have no opinion of the same. The old canard is just…
Cary Cotterman on Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t PreachDecember 6, 2024
Atheism is absence of belief in a god or gods. That's all there is to it. It's not complicated.
Cloudbuster on Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t PreachDecember 6, 2024
MIchael Dowd: "It is ironic that God oriented holidays are framework retail activity, i.e., raking in the money, the god…
Michael Dowd on Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t PreachDecember 6, 2024
It is ironic that God oriented holidays are framework retail activity, i.e., raking in the money, the god of materialism.

William M. Briggs

Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach

What Health Insurance Should Be, But Isn’t

England Voted To Have Doctors Kill Their Patients

Emergence Is Substance; Entanglement Is Substance: Science Is Healing

The Advent Of Lousy Music

Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac Mass

Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

The Impossibilities Of Quantum Computing

What Science Can Say About Vaccines: And What It Can’t Say

Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished Expert

Class 29: Nothing Has A Distribution

Women Let Him Win — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In Science

Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way?

Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their Prestige

Class 28: Randomization Redux (Randomization Does Nothing)

If We Are What We Sexually Desire, How About These Curious People?

Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach

What Health Insurance Should Be, But Isn’t

Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach

What Health Insurance Should Be, But Isn’t

England Voted To Have Doctors Kill Their Patients

Emergence Is Substance; Entanglement Is Substance: Science Is Healing

The Advent Of Lousy Music

Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification