Briggs

Woke Meat Is Coming: Roast Cockroach & Other Impossible Delicacies

Children used to be able to see on TV crocodiles swallowing gazelles, lions gutting zebras, hyenas mangling lions, cougars beheading rabbits, wolves tearing into deer, bears doing to salmon what…

Podcast

Patrick Coffin Show: How You Can Tell They’re Lying About Covid—Dr. William M. Briggs

Patrick was kind enough to have me on his podcast. Here's his show notes (his title too): #223: How You Can Tell They’re Lying About Covid—Dr. William M. Briggs “There…

Statistics

CDC Flashes Its Wee P At Us In Thin Effort To Uphold The Cult of the Mask: Coronavirus Update LVI

EXPERTS FLASH THEIR WEE P Masks are the uniform of the effeminate. You'll have heard by now of CDC's latest mask study, in which grown experts flash their wee p-values…

Statistics

The Expansion-Team Effect Guarantees A Plague Of Experts

We've discussed before the expansion-team effect. For newer readers, this is when a sport, like soccer, is gaining in popularity, the enthusiasm leading to the creation of new teams, like…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Refuting Sabellius On The Divinity Of Christ

Previous post. More common arguments against Jesus's divinity and their refutation. This chapter may be of service of those in the Muslim faith. THE OPINION OF SABELLIUS ON THE SON…

Culture

South Dakota Tour In The Time Of Coronadoom — Guest Post by Richard Greenhorn

Follow Greenhorn on Twitter---until he's purged. My wife and I entered the Black Hills from the south. It was a perfect time to be there, because all the snow and…

Statistics

Why Simple Models Are Better Than Complex In Finance, Climate, Coronadoom & More

Right after yesterday's post on (again) why rationalism and reason fail as philosophies, and on their severe limitations, I read an article profiling Gerd Gigerenzer and his "simple rules". It…

Philosophy

Cognitive Bayes & Rationality: Why Theoretical Explanations Charging People With Conspiracy Theories Fails

Fun quiz time! This is some data: x = c(0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1). Something caused that data to be. I know what it is,…

mdub@peak.org on What Science Says About Making Medication MandatoryJanuary 26, 2026
Ten points to Brian! And here is your requested placebo: "The Scientist" (by Coldplay but I like this version by…
Sid Porter on What Science Says About Making Medication MandatoryJanuary 26, 2026
There is only one valid premise pertaining to The Science- “Knowledge is Good”.
Rich on What Science Says About Making Medication MandatoryJanuary 26, 2026
In 2010 in the UK the "Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants" produced a report called, "The Mortality…
Brian (bulaoren) on What Science Says About Making Medication MandatoryJanuary 26, 2026
May I propose a new form of medicalert bracelet? It would read; "I am a hypochondriac. If I am found…
McChuck on What Science Says About Making Medication MandatoryJanuary 26, 2026
Media and government (but I repeat myself) talking heads are not categorically different from Zardoz.