I was invited by friends at Banking University, in Ho Chi Minh City, to write a paper with the title of today’s post. That paper is here at this link, and free. […]
A Partial Solution For The Replication Crisis In Economics
(Yet Another) New Paper Proves There Is No Nitrogen “Crisis” In The Netherlands
There is in the Netherlands a concocted “nitrogen crisis”, which has all the earmarks of a manufactured panic. I don’t mean in the conspiratorial sense. I mean in the Expert-created and ruler-desired […]
How Can A Man Who Loses A Race Be Called The Winner & What Does This Have To Do With Science?
In which we start simple, stay simple, come to Plateau Easy, and the readers begins to wonder why he bothers, which he discovers at the end to his puzzlement. Get In Line […]
Academics Say Morality Isn’t Decreasing, But The Increasing Numbers Who Say It Is Decreasing Cause Morality To Decrease
This is part of our Mind of Academics series. I struggled both long, and, yes, hard, to come up with a clever joke to introduce today’s academic “research”, which claims there exist […]
There Is No Difference Between A Proposal, Hypothesis, Model, Theory or Law
Ready for some Logic 101? Something real easy, I promise. We’ll use it in service to show why falsificationism is not that interesting, or useful, and we’ll need it in judging how […]
What The Law Of Large Numbers Really Means
JJ Couey, who hosts a podcast well known to some of you, and friend of the Broken Science Initiative, asked me about the so-called Law of Large Numbers. Jay wonders about sample […]
Briggs’s Best Broken Science Blast
Here’s my talk at the fourth Broken Science Initiative event in Aromas, California, from just over a week ago. (Direct link.) The content in the speech is different than in the first […]
Insurance Isn’t Insurance & Why It’s All So Crazy
We did this years ago, but it’s time for a refresh for new readers. You make a bet with a bookie. You don’t want X to happen, where “X” can be anything […]
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