2021 – Page 26 – William M. Briggs

If All Models Only Say What They’re Told To Say, Can We Learn From Them? Mask Model Example

From reader Goncalo Dias comes this excellent question: I have just sat through your seminar on (super-)models. [LINK] I have a quick question: if you assume some fluid mechanical properties…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity V

Previous post. We're coming to the end of the contrary arguments. Next week begins the case for the Defense THAT THERE IS BUT ONE SON IN THE DIVINITY 1 However,…

Culture

Fat Anorexics; Knife-Happy Doctors; Weak Women Warriors; More! — Return Of The Week In Doom

Due to underwhelming demand...the temporary return of The Week In Doom. I have a backlog of doomable material. Each ITEM is post-worthy, but the rate of increase in new items…

Culture

Institutionalized Scientists Angry Amateurs Showing Them Up, Demand They Be Stopped

Crystal Lee of MIT---bio: "I work broadly on topics related to the social and political dimensions of computing, data visualization, and disability. I also conduct ethnographic and computational research on…

Culture

What Sound Does A Duck Make, Doc, When It Calls Men Women?

The story is that a still-sane med student conducted an anonymous interview about how gender madness, a.k.a. gender fiction, a.k.a. emasculated masculinity, a.k.a. funked-up femininity, and so on, has cucked…

Culture

Universities Are Dead: Let’s Bury Their Corpses & Begin Anew

The purposes of a university are to pass on knowledge and to provide a refuge in which to conduct scholarship. That's it, and nothing more. Nowadays scholarship is called "research",…

Statistics

Vexxine Harms , Deaths & Passports; Mask Madness; More! — Coronavirus Update LXX & Heading To Infinity!

BURDEN OF PROOF I remind readers that we skeptics have no burden whatsoever to prove that mask mandates and lockdowns don't work, or even that experimental vaccines don't cause harm.…

Podcast Statistics

Over-Certainties Of Science, Scientists, Experts, Quacks & Their Models

Here is the video I made for that Truth Over Fear Summit that they tried to cancel. Gaze in wonder! Be astonished! Engage your awe engine! All graphics done with…

John W. Garrett on The Hubris Of Experts: NIH EditionJune 17, 2025
Yikes. Maybe the Rockefellers, the Hewletts, the Packards, Jeremy Grantham, Eric & Wendy Schmidt, the Waltons, Leo DiCaprio, Mike Bloomberg…
cdquarles on The Hubris Of Experts: NIH EditionJune 17, 2025
There was a wise politician who warned us about the government-media-academia complex over 60 years ago. That's right, the other…
McChuck on The Hubris Of Experts: NIH EditionJune 17, 2025
Remember, kids, a scientist is nothing more than an academic with a lab coat. Academics are people who have been…
NLR on The Hubris Of Experts: NIH EditionJune 17, 2025
Certainly, the science-industrial-government-university complex is corrupt. The criticism of it is all warranted. But even worse than expensive and frivolous…
Briggs on The Mathematics Of Conspiracy Theories. Part 1: Black Eye Club ExampleJune 16, 2025
Paul, You're right. It sucked. I'm redoing. JH, Very well. Construct for us a model that does not do what…