William M. Briggs

Having Trouble Deciding Between Brands Of Satanism? Breitbart & Salon Can Help!

It was Halloween, which was probably the excuse for the Breitbart article contrasting good, pure, "safe word" Satanism with bad, politically correct, social-justice-warrior-drenched Satanism. Boo. (Now I've had a few…

Philosophy SAMT

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…

Culture Statistics

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…

Culture Statistics

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…

Philosophy Statistics

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…

JH on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenApril 1, 2026
Promoting greater equality at home can be a solution, in addition to offering incentives to involve grandparents, as Frick suggests…
Uncle Mike on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenApril 1, 2026
I feel the same way. Tilting at windmills while the sun sets. Impossible dream, unbeatable foe, marching into hell for…
Cloudbuster on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenMarch 31, 2026
"How can you deny women what men have?" One simple word: No.
Cary D Cotterman on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenMarch 31, 2026
Given the tsunami surge of Islam into the West, welcomed by its leaders and their useful idiot voters; the takeover…
Steve on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenMarch 31, 2026
I think the soft men thing requires a certain kind of softness. Tolerance. Men soft in other ways results in…

William M. Briggs

There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft Men

Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?

All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A Model

It’s The End Of The World Again

Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb People

Class 83: Why Were Paul Ehrlich’s Predictions So Good (and so Bad)?

The Great Effeminization of the Academy

The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s Folly

Lancet Discovers Public Health Is Politics

Class 82: Be More Uncertain (About Models)

On Not Reading

The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AI

A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?

Class 81: The Second Biggest Error In Time Series

The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In Kind

Researcher Imagines Weather With No Human Influence: Concludes Climate Change Hurts Incomes

Faith Deposited: Why Godless Science Fails

Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; Stationarity

Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of Bluesky

The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell

Class 79: Time Series Example

There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft Men

Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?

Having Trouble Deciding Between Brands Of Satanism? Breitbart & Salon Can Help!

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’

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