Briggs

Precaution: Part IV—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

Read Part III. Science plays an interesting role in precautionary culture. Overall, science is looked at in our culture as a discerning field of advice in terms of numerous aspects…

Culture

What Happened to the News?—Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell

My father was a wire editor of our local paper. Even though the paper was "local" and covered a few counties, there was much more news than who married, who…

Statistics

Precaution: Part III—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

Read Part II. Precaution is essential, so the tale goes, to create policies and laws that focus on and tackle uncertainty that might be the foreboding of particular risks. The…

Fun Philosophy

Is There Free Will? A Conversation With Dr. Sam Hurtus

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1MbL6wbg1Y&w=560&h=315] I got the idea for this from regular reader Jim Fedako, who points us to a cute video showing the screwiness of p-values. Turns out the video was…

Statistics

Anthropogenic Forcing Signals Not Significant? New Polynomial Cointegration Test Paper

I have been asked by a number of people to comment on a new paper that purportedly shows that "statistical tests for global warming fails to find statistically significantly anthropogenic…

Culture

Review and Comments on Anna Karenina—Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell

The movie itself is quite enjoyable. The opening is a little jarring, as the movie mixes "stage" settings with "movie" settings. The characters will march across the stage or climb…

Philosophy Statistics

Precaution: Part II—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

For all the flurry surrounding precaution---being portrayed as a decisional/procedural instrument to protect human and environmental health from the (potential) dangers of human activities---the history shows that we are dealing…

Culture Philosophy

The HHS Mandate & Hobby Lobby: Updated

I'm a little late with this; pressures of work. Nevertheless, it's Hobby Lobby appreciation day. Open letter from CEO. One day the department of Health and Human Services sat in…

Stephen J Frick on AI: The Earth Is Spinning Faster & Slower (Because “Climate Change”)January 14, 2026
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades - Jan. 8, 2026 Later versions of AI were trained that if a programmer accepted the AI code then…
Tim Owens on AI: The Earth Is Spinning Faster & Slower (Because “Climate Change”)January 14, 2026
Do you think that the AI's tendency to support your view about...anything...is 100% real? WRONG! Try asking ANY AI about…
Rex8or Legitimax Prime on AI: The Earth Is Spinning Faster & Slower (Because “Climate Change”)January 14, 2026
If we look through our macro quantum tunneling telescope we can see the earth spinning faster and slower simultaneously.
R W Pearson on Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis ShootingJanuary 14, 2026
Three shots explained by Larry Correia on X. https://x.com/monsterhunter45/status/2009732767249248405?s=20
hudbwu on Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis ShootingJanuary 13, 2026
So we're just not going to talk about the three shots?