William M. Briggs

Beneficent Government To Ban Another Thing (Trans Fats)

Studies show the government cares about you more than you care about you, that the government loves you more than your fractured ability to love it back, that this most…

Culture Philosophy

Students Eschewing Humanities In Favor Of Science

The Times is reporting that students are high-tailing it away from the humanities, scurrying into "STEM" departments. STEM is the educational buzzword of the day---theorists in education surf from fad…

Culture Statistics

The Boston Globe’s Failed Assassination Of Willie Soon

Christopher Rowland, the Washington Bureau Chief for the Boston Globe, is not a child molester. The Boston Globe has covered child molestation stories, suspiciously at times when Rowland was with…

Culture

What Happens When Research Yields Unpopular Findings

After learning the gabbling Stephan Lewandowsky was able to complain in the Associate for Psychological Science's Observer magazine that some loon called him a self-contradictory bad name, I became curious…

Statistics

Women With Large Posteriors Live Longer? Or Is Medical Reporting Nonsense?

When reader Bruce Foutch sent me the article "Ghanaian women with big buttocks will live longer---Research", I first thought, "Here's a story a Bayesian can really sink his teeth into"…

Culture

The Supraterranean War On Sanity: Scientists Versus Civilians

Cast your mind back to 1980. Nobody, not a soul, knew that gaspers, coffin nails, and cancer sticks were bad for you.1 Tobacco companies used an advanced form of mind…

Culture

Snot-nosed Brown University Brats Throw Temper Tantrum

When is the last time you saw a bratty kid throw a temper tantrum? If you were a professor at an American university, probably right after midterms. But if you…

Statistics

Robert Heinlein And The Distinction Between Scientist vs Academician

Christos Argyropoulos â€(@ChristosArgyrop) asked me to comment on his post of the same title at the blog Statistical Reflections of a Medical Doctor. Heinlein: One can judge from experiment, or…

Cary Cotterman on Science Is Becoming FeelingsNovember 9, 2026
I'm still laughing about "Debolina".
shawn marshall on Science Is Becoming FeelingsNovember 9, 2026
it ain't really off topic : wymyn's suffrage is destroying the USA,
Brian (bulaoren) on Science Is Becoming FeelingsNovember 9, 2026
@Susan Powers I would urge you not to go Q.E.D.-ing prematurely. As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson might tell you; The…
APC Carrier on Science Is Becoming FeelingsNovember 9, 2026
There was a group of comedians in Argentina which once darted the following joke: "I am not completely useless, at…
Phil R on Science Is Becoming FeelingsNovember 9, 2026
The authors appear to be all women. With no other information we don't know if any of them are men…

William M. Briggs

Science Is Becoming Feelings

Class 100: Watch The Skies! But Only During Nuclear Tests?

After The Elections, The Book

The Solution To Evolution

Class 99: Entropy Part I

Book Update: Launch Date

Reading Bryan Johnson’s The Immortalism Manifesto

Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With Personality

I’m Thinking Of A Number Between 1 and 5 (that you can’t guess)

Against Numerology: Some Basic Calculations

Class 97: The Goal Of Models

Book Update

Sexual Assault Galore At Cornell

Class 96: Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?

Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save Us

Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?

Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” Abortions

Irrational Rationalists: Effective Altruists & The Planet of the Ants

Class 95: Answering P-Value Good Uses Challenges

Whoring For Climate Change

Lady Academics Tire Of Being Judged By Peer Review

Science Is Becoming Feelings

Class 100: Watch The Skies! But Only During Nuclear Tests?

Beneficent Government To Ban Another Thing (Trans Fats)

Students Eschewing Humanities In Favor Of Science

The Boston Globe’s Failed Assassination Of Willie Soon

What Happens When Research Yields Unpopular Findings

Women With Large Posteriors Live Longer? Or Is Medical Reporting Nonsense?

The Supraterranean War On Sanity: Scientists Versus Civilians

Snot-nosed Brown University Brats Throw Temper Tantrum

Robert Heinlein And The Distinction Between Scientist vs Academician

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