William M. Briggs

The Difference Between Variability & Uncertainty In Risk

Reader question: Dear Dr. Briggs I regularly read your blog and have purchased both your books. I especially liked your book on Uncertainty, although I need to study it a…

Culture

Scientists Now Insist Sun Rises In The West

A group of New Physicists gathered out on the point the other morning, close by where I live. I get up pretty early (too early), and since not many do,…

Statistics

There Is No Climate Emergency: So Say Us All

I am one of the more than one thousand scientists and related professionals who signed the World Climate Declaration, an effort started by a friend of ours Marcel Crok and…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Distinction of Orders

Previous post. Everywhere rank exists. ON THE DISTINCTION OF ORDERS 1 Let us now take this into consideration: The power ordered to some principal effect by nature has under it…

Fun

“If Uncle Sam ever gets whipped, here, too, it will be an inside job.”

I am on vacation for a few days. So I have a treat for you. This follows yesterday's post. Paul Harvey reminding us of inescapable facts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB42i0qg6A8 In which Harvey…

Culture

Malthus’s Proof That Welfare Leads To Increasing Need For Welfare Reexamined

This is an updated version of an original post that ran 3 February 2014. Here is a sketch of Malthus's argument that official government beneficence causes the problem it seeks…

Statistics

Researchers: Living Under The Sin-Of-Pride Flag Produces Flashbacks To Noah’s Flood

Read this The Science sentence with me and see if you enjoy it as much as I did: "Long before climate change, California’s Great Flood of 1862 stretched up to…

Culture

Why The Regime Insists Party Members Lie

Stay with me on this story. It's not big in itself, but telling. So a lefty politician is running for mayor in the Taiwan city of Taoyuan. He belongs to…

Richard S. on Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says ResearcherDecember 3, 2025
I retrieved and read or skimmed Chanda's piece. Her article scarcely referenced actual counts and statistics, but some of the…
Cary D Cotterman on Academic Proposes Mushrooms To Avoid Compulsory Moral BioenhancementDecember 3, 2025
"...tends to create sensations of selflessness..." No thanks. I need to stay focused on myself. Taking care of my own…
Tars Tarkas on Academic Proposes Mushrooms To Avoid Compulsory Moral BioenhancementDecember 3, 2025
If we are to have to put up with reliving the 1970s, I just hope and pray it's complete with…
Danny on Academic Proposes Mushrooms To Avoid Compulsory Moral BioenhancementDecember 3, 2025
What would make me happy is one of those plaid jackets with suede patches on the elbows,
Brian (bulaoren) on Academic Proposes Mushrooms To Avoid Compulsory Moral BioenhancementDecember 3, 2025
Didn't Aldous Huxley say, in Brave New World, "A dramme is better than a damn"? He was referring to a…

William M. Briggs

Academic Proposes Mushrooms To Avoid Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement

The Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Is Wrong: “Guns” are not the leading cause of death in kids

The Perfect Conspiracy Theory

Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

The Apples In A Sack Paradox: Solve It Or You Get No Pie Tomorrow

Antichrist, by Saint Robert Bellarmine

Donald vs Ishmael vs Esau — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Class 72: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Wrong Way

Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says Researcher

On That “Bombshell German Study” That “Exposes the PCR Test Fraud That Locked Down the World”

Masking Morality With Science: Men Pretending To Be Women In Sports

Why Study Probability?

The Dysgenics Of IVF

In Which An Atheist Becomes Sputteringly Angry Over Theist’s Argument

Academics Debate Which Term Best Describes Those Who Love (in that way) Their Pillows

Class 71: Never Trust ‘Research Shows’ Headlines: We Bring Cause To Data

Diversity Patrol Scanning Citations For Victims

Little Nate’s Plan To Save The World

Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education Causes Mass Squealing

Stay The Course: Have Some Class

Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer Papers

Academic Proposes Mushrooms To Avoid Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement

The Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Is Wrong: “Guns” are not the leading cause of death in kids

The Difference Between Variability & Uncertainty In Risk

Scientists Now Insist Sun Rises In The West

There Is No Climate Emergency: So Say Us All

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Distinction of Orders

“If Uncle Sam ever gets whipped, here, too, it will be an inside job.”

Malthus’s Proof That Welfare Leads To Increasing Need For Welfare Reexamined

Researchers: Living Under The Sin-Of-Pride Flag Produces Flashbacks To Noah’s Flood

Why The Regime Insists Party Members Lie

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