William M. Briggs

Talk About Pseudo-Religious Faith In Models Delayed — Blog Update

WARNING! The summit mentioned next has been shifted to one week from Friday (yesterday). Gist: the host tried to cancel it after it started on Friday. TRUTH OVER FEAR SUMMIT…

Statistics

Official Diet Recommendations & Obesity — Guest Post by Robert Yoho

This is excerpted from Hormone Secrets by Robert Yoho, MD, pending publication. This chapter is the background for the next one about the use of thyroid and other medications to…

Statistics

The Burden Of Proof On Climate Scientists—And Those Wishing For Its “Solutions”

UNCERTAINTY REQUIREMENTS If you say a calamity will befall me, and ask me to pay to protect against it, the burden is on you to (a) prove the calamity is…

Culture

How Will The Killing Begin?

What follows is a big suppose. Just that: a suppose. So don't get too worked up. Suppose in the once United States, the left spirals out of control, as it…

Statistics

Paper Says Social Distancing Doesn’t Work; Lockdowns Don’t Work; Deaths At Yearly Low; More — Coronavirus Update LXIII

Look for new plots in the update below. A RARE SIGHTING I will join this robust list of malcontents, lunatics, deniers, outcasts and iconoclasts in my speech, "Fools! I will…

Statistics

Gambler’s Fallacy Not As Crazy As Mathematician’s Fallacy

A new walks-into-a-bar joke begins (thanks to reader Kip Hansen for the tip): A mathematician, a philosopher and a gambler walk into a bar. As the barman pulls each of…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity II

Previous post. Chapter 11 is too much to do in one go. I'm splitting it up in two parts. HOW GENERATION IS TO BE UNDERSTOOD IN DIVINITY, AND WHAT IS…

Culture

Biden Told To Say No More Meat To Combat Global Cooling

Saturdays are good days to think about subscribing. Recall you host is wholly independent (as if any would have him!). So the oligarchs had Biden mask up and meet our…

Johnno on Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb PeopleApril 2, 2026
Has this Pierre perhaps considered that it is the light of Belgian criminal law and more specifically the anti-racism law…
Johnno on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenApril 2, 2026
God already foresaw all this. He warned us so in 1916 and provided a solution since 1929, in the run…
JH on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenApril 1, 2026
Promoting greater equality at home can be a solution, in addition to offering incentives to involve grandparents, as Frick suggests…
Uncle Mike on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenApril 1, 2026
I feel the same way. Tilting at windmills while the sun sets. Impossible dream, unbeatable foe, marching into hell for…
Cloudbuster on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenMarch 31, 2026
"How can you deny women what men have?" One simple word: No.

William M. Briggs

Class 84: Most Important Measure of Model Goodness

There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft Men

Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?

All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A Model

It’s The End Of The World Again

Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb People

Class 83: Why Were Paul Ehrlich’s Predictions So Good (and so Bad)?

The Great Effeminization of the Academy

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 84: Most Important Measure of Model Goodness

There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft Men

Talk About Pseudo-Religious Faith In Models Delayed — Blog Update

Official Diet Recommendations & Obesity — Guest Post by Robert Yoho

The Burden Of Proof On Climate Scientists—And Those Wishing For Its “Solutions”

How Will The Killing Begin?

Paper Says Social Distancing Doesn’t Work; Lockdowns Don’t Work; Deaths At Yearly Low; More — Coronavirus Update LXIII

Gambler’s Fallacy Not As Crazy As Mathematician’s Fallacy

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity II

Biden Told To Say No More Meat To Combat Global Cooling

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