Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: Solution To Objections To Original Sin

Previous post. The rebuttals of the objections. Not a short chapter. It may be helpful to open in a window last week's post to follow along. SOLUTION OF THE OBJECTIONS…

Statistics

Pfizer Adverse Events List Released: Plus An Update Of VAERS Analysis: J&J Deaths, Pfizer Injuries Younger

The judge-ordered release of the Pfizer docs happened this week (full link). Just when I thought we'd kicked the coronadoom habit. I don't want it to get lost: what we're…

Philosophy

The Hierarchy Of Intelligences & IQ: We’re Not As Smart As We Think

Let's think about degrees of intelligence; specifically, our knowledge of them. Now many believe that intelligence, vaguely defined, can be quantified to good, or even ideal, degree with IQ. I…

Culture

Journal Editors Demand Authors Provide Race, Gender: Force Scientists To DIE

There is, Nature, the journal of journals, tells us, a plan---a conspiracy, if you will---and not just a plan, but a giant plan--their word: giant plan---"to track diversity in research…

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The Last (Regular) Coronadoom Update!

This will be the last regular coronadoom update. I've already these last three weeks given up on numbering them. Almost two hundred, all tolled---get it? This will certainly not be…

Podcast

How Models Are Being Used & Abused In Science

I was interviewed by the Manipulation Check channel on YouTube the other day on, more or less, the philosophy of models. And how models are being used and abused these…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Objections To Original Sin

Previous post. Objections to the idea of original sin. Be sure to review. This week our good saint only lays out the counter-arguments. The rebuttals are next week. OBJECTIONS AGAINST…

Culture

Vladimir Putin Comes To Dinner — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

The following is an email reply I made to a friend Wednesday night, the night of the ‘Invasion of The Ukrainian Body Snatchers’. This friend, knowing of my studies of…

NLR on AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest PanicFebruary 16, 2026
It is true that these individuals are psyching themselves into panic. If "AI" systems are a cheat code for the…
John Pate on Desperate Need For Equality: AP Exam PerformanceFebruary 13, 2026
Supposedly AI is making everyone dumber. We can achieve equality via AI, there's nothing it can't do.
John Pate on Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGIFebruary 13, 2026
Qualia are the key to intelligence and not epiphenomena. Fancy auto-complete will never think.
Christopher C Reed on Another Academic Says Climate Skeptics Criminals Against Humanity And Other Name CallingFebruary 12, 2026
Congratulations on your promotion to Ringfueher, er...Ringleader! I suppose there may now be an opening for Henchman?
Brian. (bulaoren) on Desperate Need For Equality: AP Exam PerformanceFebruary 11, 2026
A lot of Americans have come to suspect that the "dumbing down" of the population is a real, and deliberate…