More streams coming! Including iTunes, if I can get by the censors. You can also listen at YouTube. See this frog? The “IFL Science” people say that frog is Science. IFL is […]
What Is Science?
Reader Question: Probability is not real in the sense that real life things are real
Anon writes: Mr. Briggs, I am trying to understand the statement in the title. It [probability] is a measure of uncertainty. It is a measure of what we know or do not […]
The Broken Science Initiative: Two Introductory Videos
The Broken Science Initiative, to which I have been invited, has at last been launched at a recent get together in California. Greg Glassman introduces the topic. You will recognize many of […]
All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings
Seventy-some researcher groups were given identical data, and asked to investigate an identical question. The groups did not communicate. Details are in the paper “Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and […]
Voting Causes Suspicion & Distrust
This is a modified excerpt from the Chapter on Voting in Everything You Believe Is Wrong. Why Do We Vote? Why do we vote in official elections? Or indeed elections of any […]
The Meta-Fallacy: The Mother Of All Fallacies
This is an excerpt from Chapter 26 of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. I am very much interested to learn of reader’s experience with this fallacy. Please let us know in the […]
Sabine Hossenfelder Tries, Using Free Will, To Explain She Doesn’t Have Free Will
Here’s a video Philosopher’s Cabin asked me to review. We met its author, Sabine Hossenfelder, before, when she was trying to explain how black holes enhanced Diversity, or the other way around, […]
Probability is Logic
I was reading a draft of a book our own Fr John Rickert’s is working on. Visual Logic: Seeing Classical and Modern Logic: An Introduction, a neat little handbook showing how to […]
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