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…

Statistics

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…

Paul Murphy on The Nuances and Challenges of Federal Funding for Research — Guest Post by An AcademicMay 14, 2025
Wow, what is that the naive outsider's view? In reality: 1 - you don't get tenure unless your name is…
cdquarles on The Nuances and Challenges of Federal Funding for Research — Guest Post by An AcademicMay 14, 2025
It is laughable that the premise that "commercial" funding of research is corrupting, but government funding isn't. What was that…
cdquarles on Eggs and ‘PFAS-Easter’ or Selling Fear on the Day of Resurrection — Guest Post by Jaap HanekampMay 14, 2025
Bingo, SSG Briggs. List for me, in order of mass with the most mass first, all of the chemicals in…
hudbwu on Academics Call Pregnancy A DiseaseMay 13, 2025
A moment of silence for all the pain and suffering Briggs endured to bring us this comedic piece. Trully, greatest…
hudbwu on Eggs and ‘PFAS-Easter’ or Selling Fear on the Day of Resurrection — Guest Post by Jaap HanekampMay 13, 2025
I would have preferred if the dosage for the toxins in rats were expressed in the same units as the…