William M. Briggs

Who We Are, And Who We Are Not — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

The article "The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses", by Eran Elhaik only now pooped into my Inbox. It came out in 2013,…

Culture

Reactionary Movie: When Worlds Collide

Quite a while back there were calls asking for recommendations of reactionary movies. Besides The Caine Mutiny (which I have to review formally) and Logan's Run, the next one that…

Culture

Do Not React To Mainstream News — Guest Post By Gaudia Certaminis

One good thing to keep in mind in this era of escalating frenzies is to wait some time before reacting to any news story. More and more the first reporting…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God’s In Charge, And You’re Not

Previous post. It will come as no surprise that if God is God, then He's in charge. THAT GOD GOVERNS THINGS BY HIS PROVIDENCE 1 From the points that have…

Culture

This Week In Doom — Celebrity Meat Edition

Item Abortion until birth in New York State. In a democracy, what is voted yes on becomes both true and moral. Maranatha. Item Everyone Stop Everything. What Is This? A…

Culture

Conservative Conserve Nothing — The Man Who Saw It All Coming In 1871

This excerpt is from Robert Lewis Dabney's 1871 essay "Women's Rights Women." Dabey was a Reb, and therefore he and his views are now anathema. If he ever had a…

Culture

Female Claims 0s and 1s Are Patriarchal, Biased

Men swim in idiocy, and always have. It is only when a culture enters its declining phase that it becomes incurably decadent. Decadence can last some time, but not forever.…

Culture Statistics

What’s With The Sudden Push Against Meat?

Lots of animals eat nothing but or nearly all meat and suffer no ill effects because of it. Man, an animal, eats a lot of it, too, and the evidence…

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In the mid '70s I was the janitor at Cal Tech's Kerkhoff Marine Laboratory, where they studied the effects of…
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William M. Briggs

What Are The Chances Of All These Scientists Dying, Killed, Or Going Missing?

Class 86: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Theory

How A Miracle Turns Mundane

Contest Winner Announced!

Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Class 85: Proper Scores of Model Goodness

Proof!

Justice Ketanji Roars

Iran Has Caught Covid: A Reason For The War

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

What Are The Chances Of All These Scientists Dying, Killed, Or Going Missing?

Class 86: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Theory

Who We Are, And Who We Are Not — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Reactionary Movie: When Worlds Collide

Do Not React To Mainstream News — Guest Post By Gaudia Certaminis

Summary Against Modern Thought: God’s In Charge, And You’re Not

This Week In Doom — Celebrity Meat Edition

Conservative Conserve Nothing — The Man Who Saw It All Coming In 1871

Female Claims 0s and 1s Are Patriarchal, Biased

What’s With The Sudden Push Against Meat?

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