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The Alternative To Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

This article jumps right in with continuous-valued probability models, which are explained in Uncertainty, as is the subject of this article in great detail. This article is only a rough…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Everybody Has A Different Intellect

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We're back…

Culture Philosophy

The Trolley Problem & Driverless Cars

We're back on our Edge series, What scientific concept ought to be better known. Today's entry is from Daniel Rockmore on the "Trolley Problem." This is an over-worked philosophical or…

Statistics

Stream: No, a Study Did Not Show That Same-Sex “Marriage” Laws Reduce Teen Suicide Rates

Folks, a ripe entry for the Fourth Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award (and what about the Third Annual? It's coming, it's coming...). No, a Study Did Not Show That Same-Sex…

Statistics

Pope Francis Induces Warm Thoughts Of Global Warming

It's official. Science has donned the leather jacket, slipped on a pair of becoming Bermuda shorts, strapped on a pair of water skies, and soared into the air over the…

Philosophy

AI Does Not Pose A Challenge To Christianity

The theology and philosophy of the Atlantic article "Is AI a Threat to Christianity?" proves that it was all downhill after the schoolmen in the sad twilight of the Middle…

Culture

An Open Letter To Milo Yiannopoulos — From A Friend (Guest Post)

Dear Milo, I've heard you are in a spot of bother, and I am sorry about that. Were the shoe on the foot of a Democrat, then I am sure…

Philosophy

Miracles And Possible Explanations

From Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory: 'And I dare say the first time you saw a man raised from the dead you might think so too.' He giggled…

McChuck on Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of ReificationJune 25, 2025
The laws of physics are silent on the subjects of consciousness, intellect, and the soul. It is a category error…
Briggs on Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of ReificationJune 25, 2025
ASBroad, Oh my, we've done that many times. Including here today in your presence. Stick around for more great fun!
Phillips McHead on England’s Mandatory Suicide & WomenJune 25, 2025
Inevitably, the only acceptable punishment for "hate" is capital punishment, doled out with emphatic vitriol and subtle euphemism, backed by…
NLR on Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of ReificationJune 25, 2025
People have convinced themselves that the only allowable concepts to think about the world are concepts taken from physics. That…
Mark on Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of ReificationJune 25, 2025
Editing and doubt. Deniers of free will cannot explain either , yet both are common occurrences among humans. (“Doubt” here…