William M. Briggs

This Week In Doom: Whole Babies For Sale, But Not At Chick-fil-A. Why Not?

If You Can't See The Videos, They Can't See You 8th Shocking Video: StemExpress CEO Admits Planned Parenthood Sells Fully Intact Aborted Babies In the video, Cate Dyer, the CEO…

Statistics

Rare Win For Forces Of Sanity: Or, PM2.5 Isn’t As Scary As We’ve Been Told

Quick note to a news story in which I have an interest. WORLD LOGISTICS CENTER: Moreno Valley OKs megawarehouse on 3-2 vote After three years of controversy that has divided…

Culture Statistics

Minds Have Become So Rotted By Global Warming They Listen To Naomi Klein

Two weeks Northern Michigan vacation and I still can't escape. Anti-capitalist activist, Vatican invitee, non-scientist, and authoress of extremist political tracts Naomi Klein said global warming will make Australia "meaner".…

Statistics

Trenberth Is Wrong About Global Warming: The PDO Is An Effect, Not A Cause

Kevin "Travesty" Trenberth had a peer-reviewed article in Science entitled, "Has there been a hiatus? Internal climate variability masks climate-warming trends." First, the word "hiatus" is wrong. Using it assumes…

Culture

Stream: No, Half of British Youths Aren’t “Bisexual”

Today's post is at the Stream: No, Half of British Youths Aren't "Bisexual". A survey by YouGov in Great Britain recently announced that "1 in 2 young people say they…

Statistics

Is Young Fatherhood Causally Related To Midlife Mortality? Wee P-values Say Yes!

The title of today's post is culled from the peer-reviewed paper "Is young fatherhood causally related to midlife mortality? A sibling fixed-effect study in Finland" by Elina Einiö and two…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Knows Infinite Things

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. . Chapter…

Culture

The Banality of Evil Redux: Do Planned Parenthood Officials Sin? Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Reposted from Bob Kurland's site. The net effect of this language system was not to keep these people ignorant of what they were doing, but to prevent them from equating…

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John Pate on Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto WattApril 17, 2026
What is this rambling word salad. Grok could do better. Anyway, ZionDon is just doing his bit for the Great…
Norbert on How A Miracle Turns MundaneApril 17, 2026
Certain statements in the blogpost are perhaps careless and may lead to non-Catholic thinking. For reference, the following is the…
Alain Petit on Antichrist, by Saint Robert Bellarmine, ReviewedApril 16, 2026
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Klara Castagna on Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto WattApril 16, 2026
Ianto, I luv ya man, I bought and read your book ‘The Barbarian Bible’ - everyone should buy it and…

William M. Briggs

Class 86: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Theory

How A Miracle Turns Mundane

Contest Winner Announced!

Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Class 85: Proper Scores of Model Goodness

Proof!

Justice Ketanji Roars

Iran Has Caught Covid: A Reason For The War

Class 84: Most Important Measure of Model Goodness

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

Class 86: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Theory

How A Miracle Turns Mundane

This Week In Doom: Whole Babies For Sale, But Not At Chick-fil-A. Why Not?

Rare Win For Forces Of Sanity: Or, PM2.5 Isn’t As Scary As We’ve Been Told

Minds Have Become So Rotted By Global Warming They Listen To Naomi Klein

Trenberth Is Wrong About Global Warming: The PDO Is An Effect, Not A Cause

Stream: No, Half of British Youths Aren’t “Bisexual”

Is Young Fatherhood Causally Related To Midlife Mortality? Wee P-values Say Yes!

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Knows Infinite Things

The Banality of Evil Redux: Do Planned Parenthood Officials Sin? Guest Post by Bob Kurland

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