William M. Briggs

Stream: Trump’s—No, Wait—The Republican Debate

Today's post is at the Stream: Trump's---No, Wait---The Republican Debate. Winner? No question about it, it was Trump at a canter. This was conceded even before the debate began in…

Philosophy Statistics

Comment On “Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse”

Today, since I'm very busy, a small-ish review---mere comments, really---of "Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse" by Andreas Albrecht and Daniel Phillips. I got this paper via…

Culture Statistics

Stream: December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21

Today's post is at The Stream: "December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21". President Hollande of France slid to the microphone, and, with great Gallic aplomb, announced December 12th,…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Happiness

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. We finish…

Book review Culture

The Theology of Science-fiction: Some SF “Gospels”—guest post by Bob Kurland

Be sure to visit Bob's main site, Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. Note: this article originally during Lent, 2015. ...when I was not prey to the temptations of this world,…

Culture Statistics

FiveThirtyEight Weighs In With Some Odd Affirmative Action Statistics

FiveThirtyEight ran the piece "Here's What Happens When You Ban Affirmative Action In College Admissions" that ran some dicey stats. Affirmative Action is, as all know, the practice of rewarding…

Culture Philosophy

I Self-Identify As The Yak King

Person I know was attending recently a mandatory training session at a well known university. Session was led by trainers not themselves employees of the university, folks who self-identified as…

Culture Statistics

Odds That a Panel Would ‘Randomly’ Be All Men?

There are no such thing as the "odds" a panel would be "randomly" all men. Yet The Atlantic thinks there could be, and so does a fellow named Greg Martin,…

C-Marie on Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat WavesAugust 25, 2025
Pray for Putin to receive Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour and God! God bless, C-Marie
Cary Cotterman on Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat WavesAugust 25, 2025
I am so tired of being lied to by governments, news media, and academia. This "heat wave" hysteria is pure…
Uncle Mike on Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat WavesAugust 25, 2025
Mass insanity seems to peak during summer. It could be the heat, or possibly the space aliens are more active…
Something on The Impossibilities Of Quantum ComputingAugust 25, 2025
"... everything adds up to nothing," says one commenter. Why and how is that? It sounds like a fatuous absurdity,…
Chaeremon on Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat WavesAugust 25, 2025
all poisoned! I asked Grok (the one behind expensive paywall, 2xcheap per 4 hours) about discussing ideas for accentuating modularity…

William M. Briggs

Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat Waves

Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!

Research: Solar Activity Causes High Blood Pressure

The Key Role Of Probability & Chance In Science

On The Cult Of The Victim & Why We Must Reject It

Class 61: Does This Guy Have ESP? II

Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In Science

Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert Says Academic Who Says Ticks Should Be Genetically Modified To Stop You Eating Meat

Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says Academic

Class 60: Does This Guy Have ESP? 1

Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The Science

Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating Meat

New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest Bounty

Class 59: The Hardest Hypothesis In The World

The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution

Universities Need To Be Made To Lose Prestige

Only Credentialed Artists Can Appreciate This

Does Watching TV Cause Autism?

Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women Distracting

A Week’s Vacation

Class 58: Hypothesis Testing Is All Wrong

Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat Waves

Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!

Stream: Trump’s—No, Wait—The Republican Debate

Comment On “Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse”

Stream: December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21

Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Happiness

The Theology of Science-fiction: Some SF “Gospels”—guest post by Bob Kurland

FiveThirtyEight Weighs In With Some Odd Affirmative Action Statistics

I Self-Identify As The Yak King

Odds That a Panel Would ‘Randomly’ Be All Men?

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