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Mark Steyn Vs. The Appalling Michael Mann — Guest Post by Richard Law

By Briggs on December 1, 2023 • ( 12 Comments )

Forget Lie Detectors: Use This New Book — Guest Post by Kent Clizbe (Title by Briggs)

By Briggs on November 30, 2023 • ( 8 Comments )

Coal Dust Is Claimed To Kill Old People: A New Instance of the Epidemiologist Fallacy

By Briggs on November 29, 2023 • ( 10 Comments )

Can You Get A Singularity When AI = Automated Instructions?

By Briggs on November 28, 2023 • ( 7 Comments )

Hate Is Good: Laws Which Ban “Hate” Speech Are Bad: Ireland’s New “Hate” Laws Are Tyrannical

By Briggs on November 27, 2023 • ( 13 Comments )

Worst Science Fiction of All Time

By Briggs on November 24, 2023 • ( 12 Comments )

Congress Probes Celebrity Drug Ad Endorsements

By Briggs on January 10, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

The sub-headline over at ABCNews.com is “Lawmakers Concerned That ‘Dr.’ Jarvik Lipitor Ads May Be Misleading Viewers.” A kindly “doctor,” Robert Jarvik, inventor of the artificial heart, tells viewers about the benefits […]

U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Skeptical Climate Scientists

By Briggs on January 10, 2008 • ( 16 Comments )

The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works has released an addendum to its list of 400-plus scientists who express some level of skepticism about man-made global warming. I highlight this […]

Hurricane paper featured on AIR-Worldwide

By Briggs on January 10, 2008 • ( 3 Comments )

Roger Pielke, Jr., who’s at the University of Colorado Center for Science Technology Policy Research, has written a year-end summary of the 2007 hurricane season. The summary appears in two places: AIR-Worldwide, […]

Now only 32.8% of people believe the polls: Did New Hampshire let us down?

By Briggs on January 9, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Last week we looked at how the polls did in Iowa. How badly did the polls in the New Hampshire race do in yesterday’s Democrat primary? Here are the results: Candidate Zogby […]

An unfortunate loss of a good joke: leftist thinking finally overtakes math parody

By Briggs on January 9, 2008 • ( 8 Comments )

There was an old, and sadly funny joke about the Evolution of Math Quizzes that went like this: 1960s A logger cuts and sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost […]

Don Imus sidekick makes a point with a failed joke

By Briggs on January 8, 2008 • ( 2 Comments )

Just heard Don Imus, who was attempting to explain why he wasn’t being sarcastic when he said “At least [George Bush] did something right” because we have not been attacked since 2001. […]

A safe, but misleading, prediction about global warming

By Briggs on January 7, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Reuters’s, on 3 January, had this headline, “2008 to be in top 10 warmest years say forecasters.” A quote: 2008 will be slightly cooler than recent years globally but will still be […]

Asinine comparison of holocaust deniers and honest scientists

By Briggs on January 7, 2008 • ( 1 Comment )

Some guy named Joel Connelly at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has written another one of those “We must do something now” global warming articles. What makes his piece distinct is that he compares […]

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