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UFO Hits United Flight. All Survive. This Time!

Posted by By Briggs October 28, 2025
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Changes Are Coming: Our Return to 1970s

Posted by By Briggs October 27, 2025
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How To Present Anything As Significant. Update: Nature Weighs In

Update The paper on which this post was based has hit the presses which was used as an occasion for Nature to opine that, just maybe, that some of the…
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Holocaust Survivor Compares Climate Skeptics To Hitler Deniers

Micha Tomkiewicz is a physicist who tells us he was a child in the Warsaw Ghetto and Bergen-Belsen during World War II when the Nazis (and Soviets) were gleefully murdering…
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Dutch Doctors’ Strange New House Calls

Dr Overlijden of Levenseindekliniek A new contest is in order, if it doesn't already exist. Each year we should recognize and award the person or group who invents the best…
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The Probability Of Nonsense In Science: Complexity & Verification

This is a work in progress, and today is a busy day. This is just for fun and for you to play with. The more complex the field of study,…
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Sleeping Beauty Probability Problem

Update This has been moved up from its original 29 Feb 2012 date on 23 March 2012 to allow additional comments. Update This has been moved up from its original…
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The Implications Of Moral Insignificance

In her piece "In Praise of Insignificance" in Scientific American, Jennifer Ouellette says, If one embraces an atheist worldview, it necessarily requires embracing, even celebrating, one's insignificance. It's a tall…
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Another Academic Says Climate Skeptics Criminals Against Humanity And Other Name Calling

In a talk at some "sustainability" something-or-other seminar---one this is sure: we're not going to soon run out of climate conclaves---academic Donald Brown told his audience (25 min. mark) that…
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All Forecasts, Predictions, & Prophecies Are Contingent

Yesterday I made the point that Jim Hansen's latest threat of doom was a conditional one. I also said that there was nothing wrong with this. And there isn't. Nothing…
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  1. McChuck on Changes Are Coming: Our Return to 1970sOctober 28, 2025

    I have to say, that disco song was better than 99.44% of the dreck that's being produced today.

  2. Uncle Mike on Changes Are Coming: Our Return to 1970sOctober 27, 2025

    The decade the music died.

  3. Stephen Frick on Changes Are Coming: Our Return to 1970sOctober 27, 2025

    "Looks like we got us a convoy."

  4. gareth on The Triumph Of The FeminineOctober 24, 2025

    Love the picture. Wrong in several ways, but only those with the competence that this lady lacks would notice. I…

  5. At What Point Does Transsexualism Become A Conservative Value? – William M. Briggs on Supreme Court Rules Civil Rights Act Applies To Gender Theory, Sexual “Orientation”October 23, 2025

    […] to “sexual orientation”. That “right” was teased out in 2020 by Neil Gorsuch, who is labeled a conservative. (The…

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