William M. Briggs

Shocking report in science money news came out last week. Seems "Six fossil fuel companies funneled more than $700m in research funding to 27 universities in the US from 2010…

This took a long time to get to, because we were waiting, patiently, for the CDC to count deaths. They are always eight to sixteen weeks behind. This is of…

It has been, these last few weeks, a long string of one coronadoom "conspiracy theory" after another being confirmed as true. Update: note the date of the tweet: https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1393201938724884481 Before…

How to guarantee there will be a perpetual "climate emergency": Appoint a Minister of Climate Change. https://twitter.com/jamespeshaw/status/1631178382833770496 This Shaw is "Minister of Climate Change, Associate Minister for the Environment (Biodiversity)"…

I made this picture for my talk at the first ever public Broken Science event (videos coming soon): Everybody has heard the saying "correlation doesn't imply causation." Taken loosely, it…