William M. Briggs

Brain Scientist Thinks Their Brains Are Out To Kill Them And Get Away With It

The peer-reviewed paper by Messrs Dor-Ziderman, Lutz, and Goldstein is in NeuroImage (the journal went with the hip no space) "Prediction-based neural mechanisms for shielding the self from existential threat".…

Culture

Cultural Appropriation Guarantees Tribal Politics, Anti-People-Of-No-Colorism

It is interesting to examine to what extent the progressive, SJW idea of "cultural appropriation" is unique and in how it fits in with their overall narrative. As an example…

Culture Statistics

The Fading Of Christianity In Numbers. Embracing The Dying Of The Light?

An interesting statistic, the source of which I do not know and therefore cannot verify, shows that those who claim they are "not religious" is increasing in North Africa. Libya…

Culture

Synod Leaders Sign Pact Of Extreme Global Warming, Silly Walks

Over the weekend, so ace report Edward Pentin tells us, leaders at the Amazon Synod signed a document "Pact of the Catacombs for the Common Home", an echo of an…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On Miracles

Previous post. It's a miracle! ON MIRACLES 1 Things that are at times divinely accomplished, apart from the generally established order in things, are customarily called miracles; for we admire…

Culture

The Week In Doom — It’s On Edition

Item Big changes to grueling Special Forces course draw scrutiny (Thanks to Bill Raynor for the tip.) For the nearly 200 candidates scrambling through Hoffman Forest at Camp Mackall, the…

Culture

Pew Says Trust In Scientists Up. How Depressing

Pew says "Americans' confidence that scientists act in the public interest is up since 2016". This surprises, because we have been tracking how science is becoming woker and woker, the…

Statistics

Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again: Miscarriages And Air Pollution Edition

I love air pollution. Smells like progress. Good for you. Nothing healthier. Except smoking. There, now that that's out of the way, let's get to the paper "Air pollution-induced missed…

Neil Jordan on Class 93: P-values Challenge! List The “Good Uses” of P-valueSeptember 10, 2026
How wee is the P for a coincidence? Separately, I will forward the short paper by William Feller, Scientific Research,…
Briggs on Class 93: P-values Challenge! List The “Good Uses” of P-valueSeptember 10, 2026
Neil, Now, I promise this is true, but I also got an oil change this morning. P < ???
Neil Jordan on Class 93: P-values Challenge! List The “Good Uses” of P-valueSeptember 10, 2026
Reply via iPhone while waiting for car oil change - Use for wee P? Yes there is one. Without wee…
Brian (bulaoren) on Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris PodcastSeptember 9, 2026
Nature abhors a vacuum
The True Nolan on Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”September 9, 2026
In the distant past when dinosaurs roamed the earth and volcanoes belched hourly, we kids (being on summer vacation from…

William M. Briggs

Class 93: P-values Challenge! List The “Good Uses” of P-value

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

Class 93: P-values Challenge! List The “Good Uses” of P-value

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

Brain Scientist Thinks Their Brains Are Out To Kill Them And Get Away With It

Cultural Appropriation Guarantees Tribal Politics, Anti-People-Of-No-Colorism

The Fading Of Christianity In Numbers. Embracing The Dying Of The Light?

Synod Leaders Sign Pact Of Extreme Global Warming, Silly Walks

Summary Against Modern Thought: On Miracles

The Week In Doom — It’s On Edition

Pew Says Trust In Scientists Up. How Depressing

Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again: Miscarriages And Air Pollution Edition

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