William M. Briggs

Air Force Eliminates Physical Fitness Standards, NASA Thinks Men Are Women

To help celebrate your Dependence Day, this exciting news from our boys---and girls!---and its!---in blue: "The new Air Force fitness test will feature walking instead of running and modified push-ups".…

Fun

Happy Fourth of July

Fun

We Will Never Really Know What 95 F Feels Like

Headline: "Newark, New Jersey, set a record at 102 degrees with a feels like temperature of 109 degrees." Thus are Newarkians (Newarkers?) denied the opportunity of knowing what a temperature…

Culture

Hating That Which Is Evil & Fined For It

There are various translations of Paul's letter to the Romans, but while the words differ, the substance remains the same: Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast…

Statistics

America Is A Conquered Country Which Flies A Foreign Flag

It's a practice as ancient as warfare itself. The victor tears down the enemy's totem and replaces it with his own. How many battles have we read about in which…

Statistics

Fauci Flashback; Vexxine Harms; Conspiracies; Rally Report; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXVII

GAFFE OR PLANNED? https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1409312700291747847 Old, but not forgotten. VEXXINE HARM WSJ: Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised? One remarkable aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic has been how often unpopular scientific…

$The Nightmare Of The Woke & The Elimination Of Standards$

Culture

The Nightmare Of The Woke & The Elimination Of Standards

Here's the news from the Great White-Supremacist-No-More North: The Vancouver School Board is cutting honours programs for secondary school students effective this fall. Honours math and science will be cut,…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity XI

Previous post. We continue the, admittedly very long, investigation into the Holy Ghost. ON THE EFFECTS ATTRIBUTED TO THE HOLY SPIRIT IN SCRIPTURE REGARDING THE WHOLE CREATION 1 One must,…

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