William M. Briggs

Science Is Self-Perpetuating, Not Self-Correcting: Sea Ice Case Study

Headline from 2014: "Expert predicts ice-free Arctic by 2020 as UN releases climate report". Here from NASA is a picture by year of the estimated minimum sea-ice extent, which occurs…

Culture

Bring Back Global Warming — Guest Post by Richard Law

'Rio de Janeiro is a city in South America. It is the capital of Brazil. It exports coffee and sugar. It has a tropical climate', so wrote the first form…

Culture

What New Laws Criminalizing “Hate Speech” Really Mean

Yesterday we investigated the I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy, which is invoked when academic Experts, baffled their theories are not as loved by others as by themselves, try to explain…

Philosophy

The I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy

There is a special kind of argument you hear only from academic Experts. Non-academic non-Experts never use it; or, if they do, I've not seen any example (beyond parroting AEs).…

Culture

What To Do About Black Crime?

Note: This blog is mirrored at Substack for those who prefer that format. Here is a video from late last week, a common kind, a kind which you have seen…

Culture

More On The Tyranny Of Experts: CDC & Banning Driving

Want to hear a great joke about our burgeoning Expertocracy? Rochelle Walensky still has her job. Hilarious! Not as funny as England's Experts proposing those under 25 can't drive their…

Statistics

If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?

Update See the Twitter thread (and account) for many more examples. NOBODY has been able to find a word yet that Experts haven't tied to "climate change." Got an email…

Culture

Doctors At NEJM Release Important New Statement: Do Not Get Sick

It's not certain---where I take that word in its strict sense---that the men on our side of Reality are right about how to gain and keep health. Should you slonk…

JH on Blacks Have Black Fatigue: Who Is At Fault?May 23, 2025
How would people react to heavyweight white woman statues? White fatigues? I have a wooden rotund Buddha figurine on my…
JH on Blacks Have Black Fatigue: Who Is At Fault?May 23, 2025
I don’t see the connections between DEI and the BEAUTIFUL statue. The artist has achieved more than what he intended…
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hudbwu on A Reason The Birthrate Is So Low: FoodMay 21, 2025
Personally, I'll still stick to my theory that the birth rates have fallen because people have been mentally damaged by…
Cloudbuster on Blacks Have Black Fatigue: Who Is At Fault?May 21, 2025
" The natural solution would be a formal separation: you go your way, we go ours. That, of course, would…

William M. Briggs

Class 51: Bayes Is Only A Formula

Blacks Have Black Fatigue: Who Is At Fault?

A Reason The Birthrate Is So Low: Food

What Are The Chances…A Women Survives Cancer 4 Times To Be Killed By “Random” Bullet?

Class 50: Independence Versus Irrelevance

The Nuances and Challenges of Federal Funding for Research — Guest Post by An Academic

Eggs and ‘PFAS-Easter’ or Selling Fear on the Day of Resurrection — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp

Academics Call Pregnancy A Disease

Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In Models

Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?

Reproducibility Crises Will Be Forever With Us Until We Abandon Classical Statistics

AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor Lie

Class 48: What Is A Model?

I’m Going To Sue Scientists Who Gave Me Apoplexy Over Claims Of Climate Liability

Researchers Tell Models To Say People Will Die Without Your Money

The Sun Made To Set On The British Empire – Via Science!

Class 47: Billions Of Models!

A New Physics Arises: Irreducible by Federico Faggin Reviewed

Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help Requested

Class 46: Explanation & Abductive Weakness

The Educational Empire Strikes Back

Class 51: Bayes Is Only A Formula

Blacks Have Black Fatigue: Who Is At Fault?

Science Is Self-Perpetuating, Not Self-Correcting: Sea Ice Case Study

Bring Back Global Warming — Guest Post by Richard Law

What New Laws Criminalizing “Hate Speech” Really Mean

The I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy

What To Do About Black Crime?

More On The Tyranny Of Experts: CDC & Banning Driving

If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?

Doctors At NEJM Release Important New Statement: Do Not Get Sick

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