William M. Briggs

Nature Advocates Using Children To Propagandize Parents

Nature magazine has published the article "Ignorant children should be used to propagandize their more knowledgeable parents." I might have got the title wrong (click link for actual), but it's…

Culture

E. Michael Jones vs. Michael L. Brown: Can We Speak of “The Catholics” or “The Jews”?

The readings for Sunday, 12 May (Acts 13:14, 43-52): Paul and Barnabas carried on from Perga till they reached Antioch in Pisidia. Here they went to synagogue on the Sabbath…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: How God Uses Secondary Causes

Previous post. Angels and demons are secondary causes, too. THAT THE EXECUTION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE IS ACCOMPLISHED BY MEANS OF SECONDARY CAUSES 1 We should attend to the fact that…

Culture

The Week In Doom — Out-Of-Control Matriarchy Edition

Item I have it on good report a high school has eliminated its year-end speech by the Valedictorian and substituted one by the "most popular student". (I am not naming…

Culture

Traditional Christianity All But Kaput In Western Europe, And Even USA

Couple of new surveys. One from Pew shows that only about one out of five Europeans attend services "monthly or more". Now this is very crude, usable only with caution,…

Culture

On Islam, Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

A billion words have been written since Islam awoke from her 300-year slumber in 1983. Almost all of those words have sought to explain away the actions of 'radical' Islam.…

Class Statistics

Using P-Values To Diagnose “Trends” Is Invalid

Look at the picture, which is real data, but disguised to obscure its source. It is a physical measurement taken monthly by a recognized authority. The measurements are thought to…

Culture Philosophy Statistics

The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ

That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody…

Cary Cotterman on Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your MindAugust 13, 2026
Every day there's some paper or article claiming that something is good for you, followed the next day by some…
spetzer86 on Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your MindAugust 13, 2026
Always fun watching the lectures.
JRob on Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your MindAugust 13, 2026
The epidemiologist fallacies are always enjoyable. It seems that there is a rash of scientists now saying that previous scientists…
Tars Tarkas on Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your MindAugust 13, 2026
"The unsweetened kids were born late 1951 to 1954, while the sugar-available kids were born after rationing ending in July…
McChuck on Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your MindAugust 13, 2026
It's also not coincidental that the control group is, by the standards of the study, entirely younger than the test…

William M. Briggs

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

Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics

Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics

University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing

The Equality Paradox

My Horrible Interaction With AI

SOON

The Court’s Slow Theft Of The Constitution — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Happy Birthday to US

Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)

Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!

Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind

AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent

Nature Advocates Using Children To Propagandize Parents

E. Michael Jones vs. Michael L. Brown: Can We Speak of “The Catholics” or “The Jews”?

Summary Against Modern Thought: How God Uses Secondary Causes

The Week In Doom — Out-Of-Control Matriarchy Edition

Traditional Christianity All But Kaput In Western Europe, And Even USA

On Islam, Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Using P-Values To Diagnose “Trends” Is Invalid

The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ

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