William M. Briggs

This originally appeared at Jaap's blog, and is presented lightly edited here. He and I have looked at several of the "forever chemical" papers and, so far anyway, have found…

My friend Johnathan has responded to the debate on fertility with a perspective I think is shared by many, and which deserves discussion. --Briggs I had a discussion with my…

Here is a report on a brief speech made by U.N. "rights chief" Volker Turk, warning that AI, i.e. computer models, are an "existential risk" to man. “I share the…

"Yes, I use P-values. They never did me any harm." Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these…

I was on with Jon Harris discussing, among other things, the so-called fertility crisis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TPi5vexft8 I have since seen BAP's article on the same subject, which is more in-depth, and…

A trio of academics, responsible for the paper "Temperature and Maltreatment of Young Children", did not mention Lindsay Clancy by name, but you will forgive my lapse into clickbait titling…

The most race-obsessed people, paradoxically, are those who claim race does not exist. Academics in particular are prone to insist on race being a fiction invented by "racists", people who…