William M. Briggs

San Francisco Proves Asians Are Horribly Racist To Blacks

The San Francisco Board of Education released a slew of stats on high school performance, broken down by race. We knew the answers in advance: Asians do best, then whites,…

Statistics

A People’s History of COVID-19

This essay first appeared at Mars Review of Books. SCIENCE Listen to The Science! Here is what The Science said: Stay inside for two weeks and we’ll flatten the curve.…

Philosophy Statistics

Probability is Logic

I was reading a draft of a book our own Fr John Rickert's is working on. Visual Logic: Seeing Classical and Modern Logic: An Introduction, a neat little handbook showing…

Statistics

Climate Change Now Causes People To Become Angry At LGBTQWERTies

Let's you and I play a little game. I'm going to give you an out-of-context sentence, and you see if you can guess that context. The answer is given below,…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On Confession & Sin

Previous post. Falling from grace after receiving it happens. And happens again. And again. ON THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE, AND, FIRST, THAT MEN AFTER RECEIVING SACRAMENTAL GRACE ARE ABLE TO…

Culture

The Cry Of The Fat Scientists

Theo (Chelsea) Newbold is a chemist. And fat. A fat chemist. A fat female chemist. This is not me saying so. This is the preeminent science journal in the world…

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The Six Kinds Of “Climate Deniers”, As Defined By Experts

So the Institute for Strategic Decisions, a Disinformation think tank which supplies Official Truths to the regime, wrote an interesting document, "Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation…

Podcast

On Experts, The Dutch Nitrogen “Crisis”, Coronadoom & More! — Podcast

Trish Wood had me on her TNT Radio program on Saturday afternoon. We spoke of the Dutch nitrogen "crisis", global warming (now called "climate change"), the coronadoom, Experts and our…

Milton Hathaway on Good Vs Bad Science (Models) & How You Can Tell The Difference: Think Twice ScienceOctober 13, 2025
In the spirit of "all models are wrong, but some are useful", I'm willing to take a closer look at…
Mark Miller on Good Vs Bad Science (Models) & How You Can Tell The Difference: Think Twice ScienceOctober 13, 2025
This post my move you up on the Hague's list. If you were a betting man would you bet the…
Brian (bulaoren) on Class 68: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The WRONG WayOctober 9, 2025
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Lou on Class 68: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The WRONG WayOctober 9, 2025
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Johnno on The Lancet’s New Push To Ban MeatOctober 9, 2025
A short extract from "Remarks to the Commonwealth Club" by Michael Crichton, San Francisco, September 15, 2003. "Today, one of…

William M. Briggs

Good Vs Bad Science (Models) & How You Can Tell The Difference: Think Twice Science

Class 68: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The WRONG Way

The Lancet’s New Push To Ban Meat

‘Termination Shock’: Newest Entry In Science Doom Naming Contest

Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: Research

Class 67: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The Right Way

Big Things Are Happening With Celebrities, The Pope & “Climate Change”!

The Main Barrier To Reproduction Is Ideas

How You Helped Academics Justify Sex With Children

Class 66: The Difference Between Uncertainty and Decision

Autism & Tylenol

The Charlie Kirk Killing Theories: The (Non)-Mathematics Of Conspiracy Theories 2

In Which I Shockingly Agree With Sabine That Most Science Is Of Little Or No Value

Class 65: A Last Plea Never To Use Or Trust Statistical Evidence Like This

Lacent’s Vaccination Model Says What Its Told To Say

Chinese Scientists Pull Off Hilarious “Climate Change” Troll?

On The Myths Of Scientism

Use The Tools The Left Created Against Them

The Various Solutions To Black Crime Analyzed

The False Expectation Of Permanence

Astonishing Climate Change Predictions!

Good Vs Bad Science (Models) & How You Can Tell The Difference: Think Twice Science

Class 68: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The WRONG Way

San Francisco Proves Asians Are Horribly Racist To Blacks

A People’s History of COVID-19

Probability is Logic

Climate Change Now Causes People To Become Angry At LGBTQWERTies

Summary Against Modern Thought: On Confession & Sin

The Cry Of The Fat Scientists

The Six Kinds Of “Climate Deniers”, As Defined By Experts

On Experts, The Dutch Nitrogen “Crisis”, Coronadoom & More! — Podcast

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