Briggs

Keep Trying The Vax Strategy Until Dissenters Tire Of Showing It Isn’t Working

This is Update CX. https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1470512309181296643 Conspiracy theorists: 27, Woke: 0. VAX SIDE EFFECTS I've been asked by a reader to give a simpler summary than the simple (but still complex)…

Culture

Michael Anton On Identifying Our Cultural Disease’s Symptoms & An Attempt At A Diagnosis

The obvious first stage in disease identification is noticing symptoms and their extent. This, for the United States, Michael Anton does with acumen and aplomb, in his New Criterion essay…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Why Jesus Became A Man

Previous post. A (blessedly?) short week. THAT THE ASSUMPTION OF HUMAN NATURE WAS MOST SUITED TO THE WORD OF GOD 1 From this it is also clear that the assumption…

Culture

Leadership and Depth Control — Guest Post by James M Andrews

The commanding officer in any military unit is the number one factor in crew morale and success of the mission. He is more important than anything else by an order…

Culture

Anon Wants To Give Up On RCIA: Too Many Women, Ignorant Priests, Seeks Advice

A plea from Anon: The wife and I starting going through (in-person) RCIA classes at a local Roman Catholic parish when they started in the fall. I’m struggling with some…

Book review Culture

The Somebody Might Get Hurt Fallacy — Excerpt from Everything You Believe Is Wrong

Today, an excerpt of Chapter 9 from Everything You Believe Is Wrong. A refutation of the precautionary principle. See if you notice any similarities with what is happening our your…

Statistics

VAERS Shows J&J Vaxed Dying Much Earlier; Pfizer Likely Causing More Life Threatening Injuries In Young

The results are below. At top, I answer the silliest objections. OBJECTIONS "Briggs, you can't use VAERS for diagnosing Covid vax injury." That so? "It is so. VAERS is entirely…

Culture Statistics

A Review Of The Covid Panic: Starting With Taleb’s January 2020 Frenzy & Ending In Our New Concentration Camps

This is update CIX. Let's summarize, shall we? My first post on the panic was 27 January 2020: "Taleb Chastises Calm Journalist, Advises Precautionary Panic To Coronavirus". Taleb almost at…

Cary Cotterman on Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: ResearchOctober 6, 2025
I don't really care about the twice-annual time changes. They don't bother me. However, if any change were to be…
cdquarles on Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: ResearchOctober 6, 2025
I like daylight time. Where I am in relation to my time zone's prime meridian, at the peak of summer…
Brian (bulaoren) on Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: ResearchOctober 6, 2025
Do P values constitute effeminate logic? If so, perhaps they should be called "sit down to P values" (which don't…
Rudolph Harrier on Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: ResearchOctober 6, 2025
This is a serious question: is there any justification for using p-values when you are modelling everything to begin with?…
Uncle Mike on Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: ResearchOctober 6, 2025
Quit effing with the clocks. There is no reason to do it. Yes, it strokes people out. Yes, it's a…