William M. Briggs

What’s Really Going On With China’s Coronadoom Policy In Shanghai?

If we had to pick one image to sum up China's coronadoom policy: https://twitter.com/gummibear737/status/1512929396264472578 Shanghai is locked down. People aren't allowed outside their government-designed domiciles. Except for small numbers of…

Culture

Troy Redux, On The Shores Of Kiev — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Where there is no vision, the people perish. That scriptural saying is about to be tested -- again. We never tire of this exercise. It’s a spiritual DNA thing, evidently.…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Old & New Sacraments

Previous post. The old formalisms of the law have become transformed into the new law. THE DISTINCTION OF THE SACRAMENTS OF THE OLD AND THE NEW LAW 1 Next, this…

Culture

Will The Catholic Church Change After German Prelates Say Sodomy Justified By Love?

Even if you are not a believing Christian, and don't follow the inner workings of the Church, you must acknowledge the importance of both. A major tumult in Christian ranks,…

Statistics

Efforts At Officially Defining Scientific Disinformation Continue

Phrases like scientifically valid, the late great philosopher David Stove taught us, signal distress. A writer wants to say valid, a strength word, but somehow can't bring himself to this…

Statistics

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…

C-Marie on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026
FOR CERTAIN, JOHNNO, JESUS IS LORD, AND NO OTHER!!! GOD BLESS, C-MARIE
Johnno on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026
"“How many souls make it to Heaven” is an attribute that can’t be expressed with variable data." We can at…
Johnno on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026
"What does it mean to say that “a religion is true”? IF? does this imply there are fake religions?" Yes.…
Johnno on Lancet Discovers Public Health Is PoliticsMarch 17, 2026
Doctors also eat at McDonald's. I have seen them. I have evidence! I dare say, some even hold stock options…
John M on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026
"How many souls make it to Heaven" is an attribute that can't be expressed with variable data.

William M. Briggs

The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s Folly

Lancet Discovers Public Health Is Politics

Class 82: Be More Uncertain (About Models)

On Not Reading

The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AI

A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?

Class 81: The Second Biggest Error In Time Series

The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In Kind

Researcher Imagines Weather With No Human Influence: Concludes Climate Change Hurts Incomes

Faith Deposited: Why Godless Science Fails

Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; Stationarity

Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of Bluesky

The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell

Class 79: Time Series Example

The Importance Of Not Making Decisions

Don’t Take The ‘Long-Covid’ Alzheimer’s Study Seriously

AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest Panic

Class 78: The Attempt To Turn Correlation Lead Into Causation Gold In Time Series

Desperate Need For Equality: AP Exam Performance

Some Sanity: Experts Sued For Creating Gender Delusions

Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGI

The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s Folly

Lancet Discovers Public Health Is Politics

What’s Really Going On With China’s Coronadoom Policy In Shanghai?

Troy Redux, On The Shores Of Kiev — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Old & New Sacraments

Will The Catholic Church Change After German Prelates Say Sodomy Justified By Love?

Efforts At Officially Defining Scientific Disinformation Continue

Emergence Cannot Explain Intelligence — Planetary Or Otherwise

Transfallacies — Common Fallacies Used To Justify Transsexualism

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

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