William M. Briggs

How People Come To Believe Something As Stupid As Male & Female Equality

Thanatos Savehn reminded be of this Atlantic piece from a decade ago: "The Truth About Little Women Carrying Big Wounded Men in Combat", by somebody using the name Elspeth Reeve.…

Statistics

Academics Say Morality Isn’t Decreasing, But The Increasing Numbers Who Say It Is Decreasing Cause Morality To Decrease

This is part of our Mind of Academics series. I struggled both long, and, yes, hard, to come up with a clever joke to introduce today's academic "research", which claims…

Culture

End All Formal Science Journals & Papers

Time to return to the beginning. End formal science papers and let scientists talk freely amongst themselves. Here's why. Heard about the formal peer-reviewed paper "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent…

Philosophy Statistics

There Is No Difference Between A Proposal, Hypothesis, Model, Theory or Law

Ready for some Logic 101? Something real easy, I promise. We'll use it in service to show why falsificationism is not that interesting, or useful, and we'll need it in…

Culture

The Simple Math That Proves Our Worship Of Victims Must Cause Our Doom

I did a poor job explaining that The Only Way To Avoid Illegal Discrimination Is To Illegally Discriminate. I said: I won’t show the math, but it should be easy…

Fun

Briggs You Tool! UFOs Are Real & Driven By Top Secret American Pilots, Insists Reader

I changed the title, slightly, from Briggs, You Fool! You'll see why. Anon writes: You’ve missed the entire point about the ufo story. You can deny the existence of alien…

Culture

Academics Fear People. They Study Them & Wish They Could Shut Them Up

We are going to explore, in a series of posts, the Mind of The Academic. There is much to say on this depressing-yet-amusing topic, which by itself is worthy of…

Statistics

What The Law Of Large Numbers Really Means

JJ Couey, who hosts a podcast well known to some of you, and friend of the Broken Science Initiative, asked me about the so-called Law of Large Numbers. Jay wonders…

Cary D Cotterman on Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says ResearcherNovember 19, 2025
"Damn, those white people are smart! --Duke Ellington, upon first seeing the Golden Gate Bridge
shawn marshall on Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says ResearcherNovember 19, 2025
Are there 700 million black africans? Has whitey screwed all of them?
Uncle Mike on Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says ResearcherNovember 19, 2025
Not to mention their reproductivity. Or lack of both. One might hope that they change their focus from physics to…
Williis Eschenbach on Why Study Probability?November 19, 2025
Thanks, my friend, appreciated. w.
Brian (bulaoren) on Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says ResearcherNovember 19, 2025
I have not read the paper, and I doubt I ever will. Still, there is another aspect of this issue…

William M. Briggs

Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says Researcher

On That “Bombshell German Study” That “Exposes the PCR Test Fraud That Locked Down the World”

Masking Morality With Science: Men Pretending To Be Women In Sports

Why Study Probability?

The Dysgenics Of IVF

In Which An Atheist Becomes Sputteringly Angry Over Theist’s Argument

Academics Debate Which Term Best Describes Those Who Love (in that way) Their Pillows

Class 71: Never Trust ‘Research Shows’ Headlines: We Bring Cause To Data

Diversity Patrol Scanning Citations For Victims

Little Nate’s Plan To Save The World

Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education Causes Mass Squealing

Stay The Course: Have Some Class

Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer Papers

UFO Hits United Flight. All Survive. This Time!

Changes Are Coming: Our Return to 1970s

Class 70: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Right Way

The Triumph Of The Feminine

At What Point Does Transsexualism Become A Conservative Value?

The Superpower You Didn’t Know You Had

Class 69: Why Parameters Don’t Exist

Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living Forever

Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says Researcher

On That “Bombshell German Study” That “Exposes the PCR Test Fraud That Locked Down the World”

How People Come To Believe Something As Stupid As Male & Female Equality

Academics Say Morality Isn’t Decreasing, But The Increasing Numbers Who Say It Is Decreasing Cause Morality To Decrease

End All Formal Science Journals & Papers

There Is No Difference Between A Proposal, Hypothesis, Model, Theory or Law

The Simple Math That Proves Our Worship Of Victims Must Cause Our Doom

Briggs You Tool! UFOs Are Real & Driven By Top Secret American Pilots, Insists Reader

Academics Fear People. They Study Them & Wish They Could Shut Them Up

What The Law Of Large Numbers Really Means

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