I’ll save you hunting through the text. It’s a real thing. If you want to know why, read on. If not, you just tell ’em W.M. Briggs sez so, which is enough […]

Once again the lack of metaphysical training has led some scientists to say an incredibly silly thing. That free will “could be the result of ‘background noise’ in the brain.” According to […]

Nothing can be caused by “chance”. Chance, like randomness, isn’t a thing, it isn’t real, it isn’t physical, therefore it cannot cause anything. Randomness means “unknown.” Therefore “random variables” are only propositions […]

Go ahead and ask me. I’ll even pretend to laugh. Just as I chuckle warmly with you when you quote Mark Twain (or Disraeli) abut damned lies. (Secretly, I’ll be looking for […]

Actually, all frequentists and Bayesians are logical probabilists, but if I put that in the title, few would believe it. A man might call himself an Anti-Gravitational Theorist, a science which describes […]

Many (thanks!) readers sent links to Tyler Vigen’s Spurious Correlations, whose motto is “Discover a new correlation – an interesting spurious correlation each day!” My favorite is tying the yearly number of […]

One of the services of this blog is grammatical guidance. In that spirit, here are phrases which should be forbidden, and will be once I am in charge (all highlights mine): “If […]