William M. Briggs

NASA Faked Moon Landing—Academic Psychologists Swoon, Tie It To Climate Change

One day a terrific psychological study is going to be written on the madness and mass lunacy which arose after climate change swam into the public's ken. I don't mean…

Statistics

Obama On Way Out? Romeny Hasn’t A Chance? Last Day of Presidential Voting Study

Today is the last day to participate in the voting study. If you have not already done so, please click below. And please send this to people you know, especially…

Culture Fun

College Essays For Sale—By Professors

At last college professors have found a way to supplement their income, and perhaps to steal back some of the tuition dollars that traditionally head right to the pocket of…

Culture Statistics

The Biggest Threat To Public Health? NYC Board Of Health & Soda Pop

Imagine New Yorkers' reactions if a new strain of influence or some other community deprivation were enslaving hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers a year and causing debilitating lack of…

Statistics

Statistical Follies and Epidemiology: Video

A video by a man not quite raving, not as amusing as you would hope, and with an embarrassing, horribly placed pants wrinkle. Ah, linen. He has some good points…

Philosophy

Not To Be Cannot Answer To Be: The Beautiful Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas — Guest Post by Rank Sophist

What does it mean to be? As soon as we hear someone ask this question, we become suspicious. "Is this guy a pseudo-intellectual," we wonder, "or is he trying to…

Culture

Cardinal Dolan Lectures Democrats and Republicans

His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan took to the podium at both the Democrat and Republican conventions and addressed our leaders with these most forgotten words: Help them remember that the…

Statistics

Soon & Briggs: Sunspots do impact climate

Had you thought I had forgotten about the doom that awaits us once global warming strikes (it's on it's way!)? I had not. Today's post is at the Washington Times:…

BDavi52 on Sexual Assault Galore At CornellOctober 12, 2026
You ask, "Why would anybody take a survey with such a slippery and indefensible list of questions seriously?” The answer…
CorkyAgain on Sexual Assault Galore At CornellOctober 12, 2026
"how much sexual assault and harassment they enjoyed" Unless you're being snide (hardly unexpected), "enjoyed" should probably be "endured".
Brian (bulaoren) on Sexual Assault Galore At CornellOctober 12, 2026
PS... I am regretting my use of the word "Unencumbered". I should of used Kamala Harris's term; "Unburdned". Madame Harris…
Cary Cotterman on Sexual Assault Galore At CornellOctober 12, 2026
When I was twenty-two, and a bit drunk at a party, I kissed a woman I was not in a…
Brian (bulaoren) on Sexual Assault Galore At CornellOctober 12, 2026
Something today's women fail to recognize is that though a high body-count may make a male seem "Alpha" , that…

William M. Briggs

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

Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable

PFAS and Preservatives: Entrenching Chemophobia through Everyday Stuff — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp

The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan Edwards

Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AI

Class 93: P-values Challenge! List The “Good Uses” of P-value

Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris Podcast

Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”

Do Dogs Poop In Alignment With The Earth’s Magnetic Field?

Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & Intelligence

Fertility Fears Overblown: Tiny Shift in Childless Rate Saves The Species

A New Kind Of University: Your Comments Wanted

Bad Black Health Blamed On Slavery

Sexual Assault Galore At Cornell

Class 96: Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?

NASA Faked Moon Landing—Academic Psychologists Swoon, Tie It To Climate Change

Obama On Way Out? Romeny Hasn’t A Chance? Last Day of Presidential Voting Study

College Essays For Sale—By Professors

The Biggest Threat To Public Health? NYC Board Of Health & Soda Pop

Statistical Follies and Epidemiology: Video

Not To Be Cannot Answer To Be: The Beautiful Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas — Guest Post by Rank Sophist

Cardinal Dolan Lectures Democrats and Republicans

Soon & Briggs: Sunspots do impact climate

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