William M. Briggs

Emergence Cannot Explain Intelligence — Planetary Or Otherwise

Let's have a look at the peer-reviewed paper "Intelligence as a planetary scale process" by Adam Frank, David Grinspsoon and Sara Walker, in the International Journal of Astrobiology. We might…

Philosophy

Transfallacies — Common Fallacies Used To Justify Transsexualism

I don't know why they had a special Day of Visibility for "transgenders". You can't miss men in dresses pretending to be women. They are visibility itself. Nevertheless, the Day…

Statistics

Science Says Global Warming To Cause More Heart Attacks At Night, But Only For Crazy Men 60-64.

With the waning of the coronadoom panic, and our elites unable to juice sufficient consternation over Russia, they will have to turn to other objects to monger their fear. Global…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On The Necessity Of The Sacraments

Previous post. Given the Incarnation, crucifixion, and Resurrection happened, it follows the Church is required. ON THE NECESSITY OF THE SACRAMENTS 1 Since, however (as has already been said), the…

Culture

#BoycottDisney — And, After They Surrender, Boycott The Next One

Here is one of a series of videos exposing Disney's open conspiracy to groom and corrupt your kids. https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508926408332034049 Rufo has many more (example) on his time line. In quick…

Book review

How People Think Their False Ideas Are True

This is the complete Appendix from Everything You Believe Is Wrong. Brace Yourself The Two Ways Arguments Go Wrong At this point, I am hoping the reader does a little…

Statistics

The Difference In Means & Why P-Values Should Not Be Used — Excerpt From The Lake Michigan Dialogues

"Say, Briggs. Since you're Statistician to the Stars!, explain to me how I can tell if two means are different in a simple way that even I can understand." You…

Culture

Army To Lower Women’s Pay, Keep Men’s Higher Pay

The US Military has announced it will lower women's pay, but will keep men's pay at the same levels. Anita Broad of the National Organization of Woman commented, "That's fair.…

Johnno on Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In ScienceAugust 14, 2025
Briggs you fool... what you so outdatingly call cheating, I prefer to see as a more progressive healthy open relationship…
hudbwu on Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says AcademicAugust 14, 2025
To be fair, the center of this article (that I looked at from the link provided) is a reduction-to-absurd argument…
hudbwu on Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In ScienceAugust 14, 2025
I love how the scale in the last graph is *LoGaRithMic_!
hudbwu on Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert Says Academic Who Says Ticks Should Be Genetically Modified To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 14, 2025
Do you remember the time when craving loonies posted these things not in peer-reviewed journals, but on Internet fora? Man,…
NLR on Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In ScienceAugust 13, 2025
From the link at the end of the post: On the one hand, we have the fabricated research of an…

William M. Briggs

Class 61: Does This Guy Have ESP? II

Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In Science

Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert Says Academic Who Says Ticks Should Be Genetically Modified To Stop You Eating Meat

Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says Academic

Class 60: Does This Guy Have ESP? 1

Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The Science

Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating Meat

New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest Bounty

Class 59: The Hardest Hypothesis In The World

The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution

Universities Need To Be Made To Lose Prestige

Only Credentialed Artists Can Appreciate This

Does Watching TV Cause Autism?

Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women Distracting

A Week’s Vacation

Class 58: Hypothesis Testing Is All Wrong

Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study Finds

Jung’s Synchronicity & Coincidence

Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?

Class 57: The Second Best Model

Don’t Lose Sleep Over Research On “Climate Change” & Sleep Apnea