William M. Briggs

$White Males Must Be Removed From Mathematics By Decolonization, Say Academics$

White Males Must Be Removed From Mathematics By Decolonization, Say Academics

Mathematical Equity will come when all schoolchildren, and all adults, come to grasp the following equation, an equation which will be considered the peak, the very epitome, of numerical understanding:…

Statistics

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…

NLR on The Solution To EvolutionNovember 3, 2026
The part about a form being occupied applies to technology as well. Technology cannot be whatever people want it to…
John Pate on The Solution To EvolutionNovember 2, 2026
Scientism corrupts everything. The Theory of Evolution continues to evolve but, like gravity, evolution is a thing and it might…
Brian (bulaoren) on The Solution To EvolutionNovember 2, 2026
As flies to wanton boys are we to evolutionists...
Uncle Mike on The Solution To EvolutionNovember 2, 2026
Good call, Mr. Rhodes. Readers, please search Darwinian Fairytales. A wonderful rabbit hole awaits you.
Mark Rhodes on The Solution To EvolutionNovember 2, 2026
Stove’s book is Darwinian Fairytales, not Darwinian Fantasies. Doesn’t change the point you were making, but if it aroused one…

William M. Briggs

The Solution To Evolution

Class 99: Entropy Part I

Book Update: Launch Date

Reading Bryan Johnson’s The Immortalism Manifesto

Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With Personality

I’m Thinking Of A Number Between 1 and 5 (that you can’t guess)

Against Numerology: Some Basic Calculations

Class 97: The Goal Of Models

Book Update

Sexual Assault Galore At Cornell

Class 96: Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?

Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save Us

Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?

Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” Abortions

Irrational Rationalists: Effective Altruists & The Planet of the Ants

Class 95: Answering P-Value Good Uses Challenges

Whoring For Climate Change

Lady Academics Tire Of Being Judged By Peer Review

Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable

PFAS and Preservatives: Entrenching Chemophobia through Everyday Stuff — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp

The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan Edwards

The Solution To Evolution

Class 99: Entropy Part I

White Males Must Be Removed From Mathematics By Decolonization, Say Academics

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

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