William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: How Much You Can See Of God

Previous post. The last note is the most important. HOW THOSE WHO SEE THE DIVINE SUBSTANCE MAY SEE ALL THINGS 1 Since the vision of the divine substance is the…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update LXIX — Don’t You Call Me Sir Edition

No video this week. Weep and despair! Item Berkeley prof wants to nix student evals after white male profs score higher A University of California, Berkeley professor suggested scrapping end-of-semester…

Culture

Who’s Up For A Meal And Some Corpse Dissection?

Headline Diners offered two-course meal topped off by DISSECTION of a 'human corpse' A group of dissectors have found a unique way of getting one's "insides out" as they are…

Statistics

What Lousy Philosophy Tells Us About Belief In Global Warming

One reason people doubt global-warming-of-doom is because of lousy philosophers like N. Ángel Pinillos (note the New York Times-sophisticated inclusion of the accent). He wrote a piece entitled (in some…

Statistics

Biostatisticians: They Asked Us To Lie!

The paper is "Researcher Requests for Inappropriate Analysis and Reporting: A U.S. Survey of Consulting Biostatisticians" by Min Qi Wang, Alice F. Yan, and Ralph V. Katz in Annals of…

Class Statistics

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part X: Survival Analysis

Query: now that I'm a video master, would people like videos of these lessons? I don't see how they'd help much, but who knows. Let me know below or via…

Culture

Jews Tell Christians & Muslims To Put Trigger Warnings on Bible & Koran

Some Jews asked Christians to stamp the following warning on all Bibles: Warning: Jews Have Rejected Their Messiah. And they asked Muslims to insert this bookplate into every Koran: Muhammad…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Some Know More About God Than Others

Previous post. The obvious joke is that it pays to study. THAT ONE BEING IS ABLE TO SEE GOD MORE PERFECTLY THAN ANOTHER 1 Since the mode of operation results…

Dana on Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?March 30, 2026
I read a prediction sometime ago that by 2075, religion as we know it will not exist. Maybe there will…
C-Marie on Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?March 30, 2026
Do read up on Pope Benedict XVI and more, and Pope John Paul II .... do a search for "Catholic…
Uncle Mike on Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?March 30, 2026
There have been many bad popes, but also many wonderful ones. Pope Saint John Paul II was, well, saintly. His…
Brian (bulaoren) on Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?March 30, 2026
If our rights derive from God, and if the pope is God's primary interlocutor (Pontifax Maximus) can we sue the…
Robert Arvanitis on Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?March 30, 2026
You are correct in one point. The American enterprise, unlike all previous societies, is for all Men. Not based on…

William M. Briggs

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

The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AI

A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?

Class 81: The Second Biggest Error In Time Series

The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In Kind

Researcher Imagines Weather With No Human Influence: Concludes Climate Change Hurts Incomes

Faith Deposited: Why Godless Science Fails

Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; Stationarity

Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of Bluesky

The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell

Class 79: Time Series Example

There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft Men

Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?

Summary Against Modern Thought: How Much You Can See Of God

Insanity & Doom Update LXIX — Don’t You Call Me Sir Edition

Who’s Up For A Meal And Some Corpse Dissection?

What Lousy Philosophy Tells Us About Belief In Global Warming

Biostatisticians: They Asked Us To Lie!

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part X: Survival Analysis

Jews Tell Christians & Muslims To Put Trigger Warnings on Bible & Koran

Summary Against Modern Thought: Some Know More About God Than Others

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