August 2020 – Page 3 – William M. Briggs

Is Mandatory Vaccination Against COVID-19 Precautionary? — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp

This post originally ran at Hanekamp's own site1. He is a chemist and theologian. My love and I are fortunate enough to have three children, now in their twenties. They…

Statistics

Coronavirus Update XXVI: Mandatory Vaccines & Criminalization For Refusal Suggested

Shoot Up https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1233725785283932160 That was then. This is now: Defeat COVID-19 by requiring vaccination for all. It's not un-American, it's patriotic. More: "Make vaccines free, don't allow religious or personal…

Book review

The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives On American Conservativism–Edited by Paul Gottfried, Reviewed

This is a good book to get into the hands of normie conservatives. Small-c classical so-called conservatives. I mean those who think they are true men of the Right but…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Not All Rewards & Punishments Are Equal

Previous post. My stripes are many and deep. THAT NOT ALL REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS ARE EQUAL 1 Since divine justice requires, for the preservation of equality in things, that punishments…

Culture

The Mass Mask — Guest Post by Uncle Mike & Rebuttal by Briggs

Uncle Mike Speaks Following this piece is a rebuttal by Yours Truly It has come to my attention that some people resent having to wear a face mask when attending…

Statistics

How To Really Check For Global Warming: Reader Question

From Alan Tomalty we have this question: No one has been able to separate out the amount of warming due to natural causes and amount due to CO2. Therefore I…

Fun

Prediction: Biden’s Minders Won’t Let Him Debate

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1290971428813242368 It's cheating to start with this clip of Biden's mental f--- Biden's mental f--- Biden's mental fitness, but politics is war. My favorite part, incidentally, is around 45 seconds…

Podcast

Conservative Casual Friday (Now Wednesday)—Statistician to the Stars Debunks Coronadoom

Two great radio shows, featuring not-so-great Yours Truly. Andrew Harrod of Global Patriot Radio kindly interviewed me last Friday on his show, Conservative Casual Friday--Statistician to the Stars Debunks Coronadoom,…

Johnno on Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In ScienceAugust 14, 2025
Briggs you fool... what you so outdatingly call cheating, I prefer to see as a more progressive healthy open relationship…
hudbwu on Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says AcademicAugust 14, 2025
To be fair, the center of this article (that I looked at from the link provided) is a reduction-to-absurd argument…
hudbwu on Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In ScienceAugust 14, 2025
I love how the scale in the last graph is *LoGaRithMic_!
hudbwu on Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert Says Academic Who Says Ticks Should Be Genetically Modified To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 14, 2025
Do you remember the time when craving loonies posted these things not in peer-reviewed journals, but on Internet fora? Man,…
NLR on Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In ScienceAugust 13, 2025
From the link at the end of the post: On the one hand, we have the fabricated research of an…