William M. Briggs

Who’s Supporting The UN’s So-Called Sustainable Development Plan? The #BigPush

The UN general assembly is meeting and the biggest of wigs have stepped to the microphone to say how very wonderful it is to get along. I jest, but in…

Culture

Open Thread: Effect Of Pope’s Visit?

Now the real excuse for this post is that yesterday, it being a sort of holiday, I made rather merry and neglected to cause a post to be written. Since…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Wills His Being But Not Necessarily You

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. A milestone…

Culture

Stream: UN’s Vision for Lifting Up the World’s Poor Differs Sharply from the Pope’s

Today's post is at the Stream: "UN's Vision for Lifting Up the World's Poor Differs Sharply from the Pope's". And dangerously. Pope Francis, in his speech to the UN, expressed…

Culture

The Pope’s Bargain. Accept It—If You Dare

Pope Francis told Congress we need to care for the environment. And in people's minds, and in his encyclical Laudato Si', this means at least acknowledging the threat of man-caused…

Culture Philosophy Statistics

Scientists Pretend They Can Answer Why Some Are More Religious

One thing that nearly always accompanies scientism is historical cluelessness. When somebody adopts the Way Of Science, they fall spell to the idea that only that which is most recent…

Statistics

Some Like It Hot: The Hottest Year Ever Inside A Global Warming “Pause”? The Stream. Updates

I rarely ask this, but I'd like you all to go The Stream and pass my article on to as many as you can. (Don't link here, but link at…

Statistics

Stay tuned…post coming soon at The Stream

A big one. Update Due to my causing the editors extra work (it's a longish piece), it appears it might not go up until late this evening or early tomorrow.…

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

Who’s Supporting The UN’s So-Called Sustainable Development Plan? The #BigPush

Open Thread: Effect Of Pope’s Visit?

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Wills His Being But Not Necessarily You

Stream: UN’s Vision for Lifting Up the World’s Poor Differs Sharply from the Pope’s

The Pope’s Bargain. Accept It—If You Dare

Scientists Pretend They Can Answer Why Some Are More Religious

Some Like It Hot: The Hottest Year Ever Inside A Global Warming “Pause”? The Stream. Updates

Stay tuned…post coming soon at The Stream

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