William M. Briggs

Prediction: Supreme Court Will Punt In Fake Marriage Cake Case

Stream -- Prediction: Supreme Court Will Punt In Fake Marriage Cake Case. A frisson of delight ran through the Christianity community when it was announced Monday the Supreme Court will…

Culture

From The People To Empire; Or, Why We Are Doomed: Part III– Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Here's how the concept of Judicial Review came to be. There was this guy named Marbury, and he had been appointed as a Justice of the Peace in the closing…

Class Statistics

Free Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part II

Review! We began our first predictive analysis, and spent a lot of time with it. But we still haven't got to the main question! And that is how it should…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Soul Begins At Conception, Part I

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Part I…

Culture

Many Corporations Taking Pride in Sodomy

It's "pride" day tomorrow in many places. Type "pride month" into Google. One long endless sodomy flag (to use the polite term) decorates the results. Google is proud of sodomy.…

Culture Statistics

Puberty Suppression as ‘Treatment’ for Gender Dysphoria

Puberty Suppression as 'Treatment' for Gender Dysphoria Who's for pumping confused kids full of hormones to suppress the onset of their puberty? It's a common "therapy" given to boys who…

Statistics

On That New Genes & Intelligence Paper

Niggling complaint number one. Big name journals are printing more telegraphic papers than ever before, leaving the meat to ill-edited, hard-to-navigate "supplementary" material. It's a way to get in under…

Class Statistics

Free Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part I

Regular readers know Uncertainty proposes we go back to the old way of examining and making conclusions about data, and eschew many innovations of the 20th Century. No p-values, no…

_Jim on You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason ArdayAugust 14, 2026
And, just like that, he (apparently) self-exterminates. Found unresponsive and declared deceased where they found him today, Friday the 14th…
patrivk healy on Ugly Women Rulers Condemn LookismAugust 14, 2026
C-Marie. Look around you. Virtually all the ugly woman who have corrupted the western world in the last 50 years…
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…

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!