Briggs

Which Statistics Grad School If You’re Sick Of Hocus-Pocus P-values?

I received this query from a reader and thought it important enough for all of us to answer. I was hoping you could provide some advice for an aspiring statistician.…

Philosophy Statistics

Probability & Statistics Cannot Prove Cause

Correlation I was at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness conference in Ontario (LA) California and gave my paper The Crisis Of Evidence: Why Probability And Statistics Cannot Discover Cause, which…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Can God Know The Future?

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. Does God…

Culture

This Week In Doom: Utopia Or Death (Baseball’s and Yours)

I For One Welcome Our New Robot Masters Computerized Umpire Calls Shots At San Rafael Pacifics Baseball Game The San Rafael Pacifics are no strangers to promotions, but a computerized…

Culture

Remnant: Archbishop Cupich Gives Up The Ghost

Today's post is at The Remnant: Archbishop Cupich Gives Up The Ghost: What do you think the Catholic Church, that great representation of Christ's body on earth, in Chicagoland is…

Culture Philosophy Statistics

Writer Says Discovery Of Extraterrestrial Life Would Be Bad News For God. God Says Nope

The danger of writing about that in which you are ignorant is that you're bound to look foolish. Let's see an example. Jeff Schweitzer, who bills himself as a scientist…

Philosophy Statistics

The Crisis Of Evidence: Why Probability And Statistics Cannot Discover Cause. New Paper

Cancer of the albondigas is horrifyingly under-diagnosed. See your doctor today and ask him if Profitizol is right for you. Today's post, in a way, is at Arxiv: The Crisis…

Culture Statistics

Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science

Today's post is at the Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science. The excerpt here keeps my caveman joke which was lost somewhere downstream. Jerry…

John Pate on The Unseen Bias In All ScienceJuly 15, 2025
Sigh. Just read a lot more from the London School. The first thing you have to decide, before you even…
Anonymous on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 15, 2025
Anything to do with extraterrestrial aliens, aka God, visiting and messing with humans using their superior technology. Plenty of humans…
C-Marie on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 15, 2025
I do not have a clue, but I am sooo impressed with so many replies and amazing understanding! God bless,…
polybius on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025
Artificial "intlligence". These "AI" entities are machines. Software running on an electronic computer. They can never be intelligent, nor can…
houska on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025
Here's some bad think from MIT and Princeton: "PHYSICS DEMONSTRATES THAT INCREASING GREENHOUSE GASES CANNOT CAUSE DANGEROUS WARMING, EXTREME WEATHER…