William M. Briggs

Prime Example Of Consent Fallacy: Legalizing Prostitution

NYT: Could Prostitution Be Next to Be Decriminalized? Marijuana has gone mainstream, casino gambling is everywhere and sports wagering is spreading. Could prostitution be next? Lawmakers across the country are…

Statistics

Many Atheists Still Believe In Higher Powers—Whatever Those Are

A new report on atheists is of interest. It's "Understanding Unbelief: Atheists and agnostics around the world: Interim findings from 2019 research in Brazil, China, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom,…

Culture

What Happens If Doctors Keep Up The Killing

The Wall Street Journal interviewed a month ago Paul McHugh, now 87, who is a psychiatrist from Johns Hopkins, where he famously, or infamously, in the 70s closed that hospital's…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Ordering Among Angels

Previous post. Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges. ON THE ORDERING OF THE ANGELS AMONG THEMSELVES 1 Since bodily things are ruled by spiritual things, as we showed, and…

Culture

The Week In Doom — Pope Reaches Out To Furries Edition

Item Francis "Lost Memory", Blasphemes God Who "Wants Transsexuals That Way" Confronted with the Zanchetta case, an Argentinean bishop, accused of homosexual abuses, and promoted and protected by Francis, he…

Statistics

Post-Approval Drug Failures: More Reasons To Eliminate P-values & Parameter-Centric Methods

Some comments on the JAMA: Internal Medicine article "An International Perspective on Drugs for Cancer: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times" by Richard Lehman. Drugs increase fast, and…

Statistics

UFOs: Solution Of Fermi Paradox Or One-World Government Wedge? Update

UFOs--in the public imagination, at least---came in four waves. Although there were other incidents well before this time, and in many places, the first big push in the States was…

Statistics

Special Mid-Week Doom — All Israel All The Time Edition

Item Nearly 400 Lawmakers Call on Trump to Address Threats in Syria Dear Mr. President: At a time of grave insecurity in the Middle East, we are deeply concerned about…

Neil Jordan on Class 94: Quantifying The UnquantifiableSeptember 17, 2026
At last, an opportunity to join you in the "Quagmire of Marginal Statistics." This and later quote are from memory…
McChuck on The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan EdwardsSeptember 17, 2026
"South Korea and Japan will no longer exist, perhaps in our lifetime, if they don’t start reproducing or bringing more…
McChuck on PFAS and Preservatives: Entrenching Chemophobia through Everyday Stuff — Guest Post by Jaap HanekampSeptember 17, 2026
How many of the breast milk lab techs (doesn't that sound filthy out of context?) were wearing latex gloves, known…
JH on PFAS and Preservatives: Entrenching Chemophobia through Everyday Stuff — Guest Post by Jaap HanekampSeptember 16, 2026
The alternative to preserved clay is, sooner rather than later, mouldy clay… Does this mean to create fear? There are…
Cary Cotterman on PFAS and Preservatives: Entrenching Chemophobia through Everyday Stuff — Guest Post by Jaap HanekampSeptember 16, 2026
Growing up in the late 1950s, I played with modeling clay almost every day. Who knows, back then it was…

William M. Briggs

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

Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AI

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!

Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable

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

Prime Example Of Consent Fallacy: Legalizing Prostitution

Many Atheists Still Believe In Higher Powers—Whatever Those Are

What Happens If Doctors Keep Up The Killing

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Ordering Among Angels

The Week In Doom — Pope Reaches Out To Furries Edition

Post-Approval Drug Failures: More Reasons To Eliminate P-values & Parameter-Centric Methods

UFOs: Solution Of Fermi Paradox Or One-World Government Wedge? Update

Special Mid-Week Doom — All Israel All The Time 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