July 2022 – Page 3 – William M. Briggs

Turns Out The Vex Likely Caused Myocarditis & Pericarditis After All

Remember how the woke and super-concerned and awfully caring and, most of all, ignorant (I use this word in its technical sense) censors at YouTube, Twitter and all the rest…

Statistics

The Common Cause In All Reproducibility Crises

Here is a cartoon, but a revealing one. Type "reproducibility crisis in" in your search engine and let it suggest the ending of the sentence, as we did here: Science,…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Wine & Bread Of The Eucharist

Previous post. For reasons unknown to me, many parishes use sherry. This is a fairly arcane topic, not of great interest to most of us. ON THE KIND OF BREAD…

Culture

How Expertism & The Woke Spreads In Science

The New England Journal of Medicine isn't exactly what its name indicates. It does tend to concentrate on publishing articles on various aspects of medicine. But it also engages in…

Statistics

Why Do You Believe Masks Work?

Take a look at this: The Mask Mandate, which according to Taiwan's media was assiduously observed, began in late Spring 2021. It is still in place. Indeed, on 29 June…

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List Of Evidence Showing There Is No Nitrogen “Crisis” In The Netherlands

On the Fourth of July, a group of angry Dutch farmers and fishermen, presumably dressed as colorful Frisians, and in the grip of angry exuberance, burnt bales of hay on…

Culture

Elena Kagan’s Blind Love Of The Expertocracy: SCOTUS Slaps The EPA

SCOTUS ruled 6-3 that, in effect, without Congressional authorization, the EPA does not have the power to regulate carbon dioxide. Justice Elena Kagan dissented. Kagan opened her dissent thus (whole…

Fun

Top Ten Fireworks Tips from the Cult of Safety First!

Happy Fourth of July! Here are your Cult of Safety First! tips for blowing off fireworks. 1. Take plenty of matches: propane blowtorches are ideal. 2. Hurl the bottle rocket…

spetzer86 on Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The ScienceAugust 7, 2025
I'm assuming they only asked pilots of fixed-wing aircraft and not those rotary-wing pilots flying in the Washington, DC area.
spetzer86 on Class 60: Does This Guy Have ESP? 1August 7, 2025
A person could still game your system by doing something complicated but not impossible. For example, repeatedly selecting one card…
hudbwu on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 7, 2025
> Today they take people who docs declare are in “irreversible coma” etc. and not “brain dead”. They are wheeled…
hudbwu on Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The ScienceAugust 7, 2025
A simple way to improve the study is to fire the subjects that don't fulfil some perfomance criterion. That would…
Lou on Class 60: Does This Guy Have ESP? 1August 7, 2025
Hello, Class 60: I am sticking with it, and its not at all too difficult. Please keep going at your…