William M. Briggs

Are 40 Percent of Europeans Mentally Ill?

Forty-percent of a population is a lot. Imagine a street filled with people---European people. Perhaps they are standing in line waiting for their free health care. Four out of ten…

Philosophy Statistics

What Is Science? Part I

Science says this, science says that. There is no more loquacious entity these days than science. What is it? Climatologists talk of the science. Physicists compliment by saying a fellow…

Philosophy Statistics

Occam's razor: The simplest hypothesis is usually the best. Simplest is easy to understand, and non-controversial, or relatively so. Consternation creeps in with usually. Before that, first understand what is…

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Are You Good At Picking Football Games? Edgehogs

I haven't met a die-hard sports fan yet who hasn't claimed to be able to pick games better than everybody else. Just as I haven't met a gambler who hasn't…

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Spencer’s Paper Reviewed; Remote Sensing Editor Wolfgang Wagner Resigns

Politics In one of the most asinine, self-promoting, sniveling, absurd, nakedly political moves Wolfgang Wagner has resigned, with trumpets blazing, his editorship of Remote Sensing. Why? Because the journal under…

Culture Fun

How Do You Drive Every Day?

I have not owned a car since the summer of 1998, when I sold for a pittance a rattly Dodge Omni I had been driving for a decade. In New…

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Cosmic Radiation, Clouds, & Global Warming

Rumor is that James Hansen was so upset by CERN's CLOUD experiment results that he and a gaggle of rabid environmentalists stormed the White House and demanded that cosmic rays…

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Mental Illness To Increase Due To Climate Change

Look out! "Climate change is here, now." And it is causing an increase in nuttiness and lunacy among the those that dwell Down Under. Or so says Tony McMichael "AO,…

JH on The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan EdwardsSeptember 15, 2026
Follow the footsteps of South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. They have welcomed more immigrants and expanded foreign worker programs to…
C-Marie on Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AISeptember 15, 2026
Thank you, Matt. Great information, especially regarding the road to power. Our God is on the move. Let us all,…
Tars Tarkas on The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan EdwardsSeptember 15, 2026
Vance destroyed his bloodline by marrying and reproducing with an Indian. I would vote for Kamala Harris before voting for…
shawn marshall on The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan EdwardsSeptember 15, 2026
if you were so privileged, author, you might notice that the errors of Russia 1917 have spread throughout the world…
John Pate on Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AISeptember 14, 2026
And people have the gall to claim the USA isn't communist.

William M. Briggs

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

Is Moral Certainty Possible?

We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research

Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind

AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent

You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday

Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200

The Impossibility of Proposition Nations

Ugly Women Rulers Condemn Lookism

The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!

Wolfgang Smith For Everyone

Death By Organ Donation

The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan Edwards

Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AI

Are 40 Percent of Europeans Mentally Ill?

What Is Science? Part I

Occam’s Razor And Induction

Are You Good At Picking Football Games? Edgehogs

Spencer’s Paper Reviewed; Remote Sensing Editor Wolfgang Wagner Resigns

How Do You Drive Every Day?

Cosmic Radiation, Clouds, & Global Warming

Mental Illness To Increase Due To Climate Change

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