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Something Has Gone Seriously Wrong With “Climate Change” Science

By Briggs on September 29, 2023 • ( 9 Comments )

The Many Troubles With Science: A Conversation With Jaap Hanekamp About Our Upcoming Book

By Briggs on September 28, 2023 • ( 19 Comments )

The Time Is Now For It To Be Now. Again.

By Briggs on September 27, 2023 • ( 10 Comments )

The Deadly Rise Of The Science Enforcers

By Briggs on September 26, 2023 • ( 21 Comments )

Experts: Everybody In Europe Died From Breathing Toxic Air

By Briggs on September 25, 2023 • ( 13 Comments )

All—As In All—Of The “Climate Change Made This Event More Likely” Claims Are False

By Briggs on September 22, 2023 • ( 13 Comments )

Waywardrobot.com

By Briggs on December 17, 2007 • ( 2 Comments )

One of the most promising new webcomics—Wayward Robot—discussed on the podcast Web Comic Beacon (at about the 24th minute). The comic is drawn by my younger son.

“The Future of Everything” by David Orrell

By Briggs on December 17, 2007 • ( 1 Comment )

The Future of Everything by David Orrell. Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York. I wanted to like this book, which was supposed to be an examination of how well scientists made predictions—my special […]

12 million kids are being held hostage by a psychiatric disorder

By Briggs on December 16, 2007 • ( 1 Comment )

source: New York Times My God! 12 million! Something must be done! This bulletin board appears at various places in New York City (as reported in the New York Times). It is […]

Another attempt to show abstinence is bad: “Losing virginity early or late tied to health risks”

By Briggs on December 13, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )

That headline is from an MSNBC story of the same name. Taken at face value, it argues that, for maximum healthiness, we should all aim to lose our virginity at the same […]

Beer: alcohol, calories, and carbs

By Briggs on December 11, 2007 • ( 11 Comments )

Which beer style has the most calories? In general: porters. The least: lager, the style of beer with which you are probably most familiar. Budweiser, Miller, Coors, the majority of all mass-market […]

Never use bar charts! Case study #1

By Briggs on December 10, 2007 • ( 3 Comments )

This graphic comes from the New York Times article “Social Security Disability Cases Last Longer as Backlog Rises.” It obviously intends to show how applications have increased since 1998. This is a […]

How to Exaggerate Your Results: Case study #2

By Briggs on December 9, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )

That’s a fairly typical ad, which is now running on TV, and which is also on Glad’s web site. Looks like a clear majority would rather buy Glad’s fine trash bag than […]

Why most statistics don’t mean what you think they do: Part II.

By Briggs on December 8, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )

In Part I of this post, we started with a typical problem: which of two advertising campaigns was “better” in terms of generating more sales. Campaigns A and B were each tested […]

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