William M. Briggs

What Makes A Casino Gamble Different Than Making A Decision Under Uncertainty?

We continue with our week of pleasant Thanksgiving topics. A cop in the police procedural Hell Is A City (start around 54 minutes) discerned one of the bad guys he…

Statistics

The Statistics Of Stopping Power

It is a slow week, and a week of Thanks, so let's spend our time with some fun things. Like a fascinating study by Greg Ellifritz on "An Alternate Look…

Statistics

Refereeing Models Which Ask Us To “Follow The Science!”

I'm stealing this from Spectator, which has done science right. It shows the UK's SAGE Expert models for covid. In each case, the gray and others colors are the model…

Book review Culture

How Our Dictator Arrives: Surfing On A Wave Of Paperwork — Review of the Forgotten ‘The Law of Longer Life’ by Parkinson & Le Compte

The list of authors who have theories on how civilizations end is not small: Ibn Kaldun, Spengler, Toynbee, Strauss and Howe, Turchin, Glubb all stress that civilizations have existed but…

Culture Philosophy

Sex With Dogs & Other Critters Back In Vogue, Thanks To Academic Peter Singer

Very long time readers will know that we warned that the creation of the notion of "sexual orientation", and the criminalizing of "discrimination" against "sexual orientations", logically implied that all…

Culture

A Brief History Of The Palestine Grievance — Comments by the Late Glubb Pasha

We begin with an excerpt from the short book The Middle East Crisis: A Personal Interpretation by Glubb Pasha, published late in 1967. If you have any interest in the…

Culture

Abortion Is Only The Symptom: Here Is The Disease

Was listening to the radio and the propagandist said something like, "Ohio voters enshrined the right to abortion in the state's Constitution..." They never do hear themselves, do they. Enshrined.…

Culture

Decolonizing Science: Every Decolonizer Is A Liar

Every person who says they want to decolonize science, or math, or medicine, or whatever, is a liar. They do not tell the truth. They do not want to decolonize…

William Wallace on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 4, 2025
See the Python crew in Meaning of Life when the organ donor man shows up at the home to collect.…
Brad Hewitt on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 4, 2025
Taking a step closer to making Michael Chrichton's "Coma", a reality.
JH on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 4, 2025
This post reminds me of one of the arguments against the death penalty: the risk of executing an innocent person.
Brian (bulaoren) on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 4, 2025
See Monty Python and the Holy Grail; "Bring out your dead".
The True Nolan on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 4, 2025
Reports claim Canada plans to euthanize 15 million citizens in the next 20 years. Well, over 20 years? 20 years…

William M. Briggs

New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest Bounty

Class 59: The Hardest Hypothesis In The World

The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution

Universities Need To Be Made To Lose Prestige

Only Credentialed Artists Can Appreciate This

Does Watching TV Cause Autism?

Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women Distracting

A Week’s Vacation

Class 58: Hypothesis Testing Is All Wrong

Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study Finds

Jung’s Synchronicity & Coincidence

Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?

Class 57: The Second Best Model

Don’t Lose Sleep Over Research On “Climate Change” & Sleep Apnea

What’s Wrong With The Golf Course Parkinson’s Study

The Unseen Bias In All Science

The Sad End Of Radio

Let’s Play A Game Of Let’s Suppose!

Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)

How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?

Class 56: The Best Model!

New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest Bounty

Class 59: The Hardest Hypothesis In The World

What Makes A Casino Gamble Different Than Making A Decision Under Uncertainty?

The Statistics Of Stopping Power

Refereeing Models Which Ask Us To “Follow The Science!”

How Our Dictator Arrives: Surfing On A Wave Of Paperwork — Review of the Forgotten ‘The Law of Longer Life’ by Parkinson & Le Compte

Sex With Dogs & Other Critters Back In Vogue, Thanks To Academic Peter Singer

A Brief History Of The Palestine Grievance — Comments by the Late Glubb Pasha

Abortion Is Only The Symptom: Here Is The Disease

Decolonizing Science: Every Decolonizer Is A Liar

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