William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: That God Is Love, And What That Means

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. This is…

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This Week In Doom: Justice Kennedy Says Bureaucrats Should Act Like Nazis?

Kennedy to Faithful: Drop Dead The appalling Anthony Kennedy, supreme justice, invoked Hitler to insist that Christians and Muslims who want to stay faithful should resign from government. Yes. Speaking…

Culture

The Catholic Church: Midwife Of Science. Guest Post by Bob Kurland

"The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism. " Pierre Duhem, The Aim and Structure…

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Stream: Bishops Demand World-Wide Decarbonization.

Today's post is at The Stream: "Bishops Demand World-Wide Decarbonization". Generally, the less physics a man knows the more he cares about global-warming-of-doom. The reason is simple. In-depth knowledge of…

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Data Do Not Have Means: Or, The Deadly Sin of Reification Strikes Again!

No, data do not have means. Nor do they have variances, autocorrelations, partial or otherwise, nor moments; nor do they have any other statistical characteristic you care to name. Data…

Culture

The Crisis Of Conservative Catholicism: Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture at First Things

Ross Douthat gave the 28th Erasmus Lecture at the Union League Club (they have a complete set of books on the "Rebellion" in their library) in Manhattan. Your roving reporter…

Culture

Insurance Companies Raising Prices Because Of Exaggerated Global Warming Threat by Insurance Insider ‘Barton Keyes’

'Barton Keyes' is a pseudonym (which I picked) as the insurance industry insider who penned this article needs to remain anonymous. This article, which tells of how insurance companies will…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Passions of the Appetite & God

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've already…

Brian (bulaoren) on The Dysgenics Of IVFNovember 12, 2025
...Addendum, this time more utilitarian than Kevorkian (HMmm... both Armenian?) An oncologist I know suspects a very real connection between…
Uncle Mike on In Which An Atheist Becomes Sputteringly Angry Over Theist’s ArgumentNovember 12, 2025
Brother Cary, look harder. Everything you see reveals God. The complexity of your eye reveals God. The act of seeing,…
McChuck on In Which An Atheist Becomes Sputteringly Angry Over Theist’s ArgumentNovember 12, 2025
CDC: You have been given an opportunity. You have vociferously declined it. You have made your choice, which is the…
Brian (bulaoren) on The Dysgenics Of IVFNovember 12, 2025
Back in the 1990s, progressives had a hero named Dr. Jack Kevorkian (aka " Dr. Death") Good old Jack might…
JRob on The Dysgenics Of IVFNovember 12, 2025
Other writers also have pointed out that IVF occurs when all the average sperm have an equal chance at conception,…

William M. Briggs

The Dysgenics Of IVF

In Which An Atheist Becomes Sputteringly Angry Over Theist’s Argument

Academics Debate Which Term Best Describes Those Who Love (in that way) Their Pillows

Class 71: Never Trust ‘Research Shows’ Headlines: We Bring Cause To Data

Diversity Patrol Scanning Citations For Victims

Little Nate’s Plan To Save The World

Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education Causes Mass Squealing

Stay The Course: Have Some Class

Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer Papers

UFO Hits United Flight. All Survive. This Time!

Changes Are Coming: Our Return to 1970s

Class 70: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Right Way

The Triumph Of The Feminine

At What Point Does Transsexualism Become A Conservative Value?

The Superpower You Didn’t Know You Had

Class 69: Why Parameters Don’t Exist

Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living Forever

Nobody Believes Anything Based On “No Evidence”

Good Vs Bad Science (Models) & How You Can Tell The Difference: Think Twice Science

Class 68: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The WRONG Way

The Lancet’s New Push To Ban Meat

The Dysgenics Of IVF

In Which An Atheist Becomes Sputteringly Angry Over Theist’s Argument

Summary Against Modern Thought: That God Is Love, And What That Means

This Week In Doom: Justice Kennedy Says Bureaucrats Should Act Like Nazis?

The Catholic Church: Midwife Of Science. Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Stream: Bishops Demand World-Wide Decarbonization.

Data Do Not Have Means: Or, The Deadly Sin of Reification Strikes Again!

The Crisis Of Conservative Catholicism: Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture at First Things

Insurance Companies Raising Prices Because Of Exaggerated Global Warming Threat by Insurance Insider ‘Barton Keyes’

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Passions of the Appetite & God

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