William M. Briggs

What Would You Call This Style Of Bad Writing?

Describing writing isn't that different from writing about painting. You want to say what the writing or the picture is about, but words fail, the essence is slippery, the description…

Culture

The Threat Of President Meghan Markle Demands We Revisit Goodwin’s Anti-Suffrage Arguments

I awoke Tuesday morning to a horrifying, ghastly sight. One that depressed my soul more than I had thought possible. The cliche "it shook me to my core" cast off…

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We Get An I-Told-You-So On The J&J Vax: Also Taiwan Panic Projection Update

We warned you about the J&J vaccine. And now the FDA is warning you, too. First a fond review of our warnings, then some news about the FDA's cautions. On…

Statistics

Making Climate Skepticism Illegal: The Regime’s Crackdown On Disinformation

Update https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1526933945949990912 Original story. Before we get into this, it is interesting to note that if I had kept my original headline, "Attempting to make global warming skepticism illegal", it…

Culture

Two Ruth Sent Us Angry Women Invade A Catholic Church: A Vision

The story opened like this: Pro-abortion activists are planning protests in churches on Mother’s Day and are preparing visits to Supreme Court justices’ homes next week to express anger over…

Philosophy

The Step Back Shuffle Problem In The Origin Of Life

Science does not know what life is. Which is to say, the definition of life is not scientific. Science begins with the definition---supplied by outside sources and methods---and then does…

Statistics

There Are No Such Things As 100-Year Floods: Global Warming Isn’t Making Floods Worse

Reader Chuck Lampert writes: Hi Briggs! I got into a kerfluffle with some Climate Apocalypse true believers who said the frequency of 1/50, 1/100, 1/500, and 1/1000 yr floods is…

Culture Philosophy

“Let Us Kill! Let Us Kill!” The Left Chants As Justice Alito Smiles On

Propagandists are celebrating. Not the possibility that ghouls calling themselves "doctors" will no longer be able to kill legally the lives inside would-be mothers---and use the dead bodies in various…

Brian ( bulaoren) on Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”September 8, 2026
Ps. When I saw "River's Edge", it reminded me of a, weirdly, morally ambiguous 1950s Hitchcock film (with Jerry "Beaver"…
Cary Cotterman on Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”September 8, 2026
As a child in the 1960s, I tended to get injured more often in warm months than in cold months,…
Brian (bulaoren) on Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”September 8, 2026
Today's subject seems a bit too warm to touch. Well, somebody has to break the ice (9?). I keep remembering…
Tars Tarkas on Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”September 8, 2026
"Our results suggest instead that child neglect is measurably responsive to high temperatures—parents are intentionally or unintentionally allowing their young…
gareth on Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & IntelligenceSeptember 7, 2026
So, was there any actual plant bothering done? Or was this all "thought experiment"? It was not clear to me…

William M. Briggs

Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris Podcast

Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”

Do Dogs Poop In Alignment With The Earth’s Magnetic Field?

Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & Intelligence

Fertility Fears Overblown: Tiny Shift in Childless Rate Saves The Species

A New Kind Of University: Your Comments Wanted

Bad Black Health Blamed On Slavery

Is Moral Certainty Possible?

We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research

Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind

AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent

You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday

Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200

The Impossibility of Proposition Nations

Ugly Women Rulers Condemn Lookism

The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!

Wolfgang Smith For Everyone

Death By Organ Donation

$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?

Caution Against The Precautionary Principle: Interview with Jaap Hanekamp

Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics

Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris Podcast

Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”

What Would You Call This Style Of Bad Writing?

The Threat Of President Meghan Markle Demands We Revisit Goodwin’s Anti-Suffrage Arguments

We Get An I-Told-You-So On The J&J Vax: Also Taiwan Panic Projection Update

Making Climate Skepticism Illegal: The Regime’s Crackdown On Disinformation

Two Ruth Sent Us Angry Women Invade A Catholic Church: A Vision

The Step Back Shuffle Problem In The Origin Of Life

There Are No Such Things As 100-Year Floods: Global Warming Isn’t Making Floods Worse

“Let Us Kill! Let Us Kill!” The Left Chants As Justice Alito Smiles On

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