William M. Briggs

Case Study In Making Science Propaganda: Cooking Becomes Pollution

Major Headline! "That mouth-watering aroma of fresh food cooking? It may be degrading air quality". Story opens thus: It’s been known for years that cooking indoors can taint the air…

Statistics

Critique Of Specification Curve Analysis

Dear reader, this will be a tad difficult, but I urge you to plow through as best you can, because this is becoming "a thing" in some areas. I stripped…

Statistics

What Postmodernists Got Right About Science

Maybe you can remember way back to the mid to late 1990s. Ancient history. This was the time of the original Science Wars, the assault by rapid postmodernists (i.e, the…

Class Statistics

Class 9: Nothing Has A Probability: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science:

Link to all Classes. Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble Bitchute HOMEWORK: Find a contentious event, some P and the disputed evidence Q, and describe (in words; we haven't done numbers…

Statistics

How To Set Up As A Global Warming, Now Called “Climate Change”, Researcher

Are you one of the many who have recognized the path to success is to show how the world will end, women and minorities hardest hit, but you don't know…

Culture

The Woke-Right Commentariat Embraces Doctor Killings

Headline: "Physically healthy Dutch woman Zoraya ter Beek, 29, dies by assisted suicide". 29-year-old Zoraya ter Beek’s life was terminated last week after waiting three years for final approval for…

Philosophy

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

We continue our series of wondering about the foundations of science. Not only is mechanistic materialism false, for the many reasons we'll discuss, but it is a thoroughly enervating philosophy.…

Class Statistics

Class 8: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: What Probability Is 1

Link to all Classes. Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble Bitchute Link to all Classes. HOMEWORK THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS UNCONDITIONAL PROBABILITY, I.E. THERE IS NO Pr(A), only Pr(A|B).…

Brian (bulaoren) on Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With PersonalityOctober 22, 2026
Across the world, many jurisdictions ban pet "pit bulls". Are they in error?
NLR on Against Numerology: Some Basic CalculationsOctober 19, 2026
The mathematician Richard Guy wrote a paper "The strong law of small numbers", where he said, facetiously, but also serirously:…
aGrimm on Book UpdateOctober 16, 2026
I'm looking forward to the book; warts and all the first was enlightening and fun to read.
John Pate on Book UpdateOctober 14, 2026
I'm a big fan of LaTeX. I wrote a class package that made it into one or more of the…
Ursula on Book UpdateOctober 14, 2026
i have your first edition which I read, pencil in hand foor the typos. Loved it anyway! Will be buying…

William M. Briggs

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

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”

Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With Personality

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

Case Study In Making Science Propaganda: Cooking Becomes Pollution

Critique Of Specification Curve Analysis

What Postmodernists Got Right About Science

Class 9: Nothing Has A Probability: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science:

How To Set Up As A Global Warming, Now Called “Climate Change”, Researcher

The Woke-Right Commentariat Embraces Doctor Killings

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

Class 8: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: What Probability Is 1

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