Posted inFun
How I Became A Renegade Scientist
This old picture of myself and a fellow outlaw is given as proof of my deep anti-social propensities. A friend of mine, long ago, would sit and listen to George…
Posted inStatistics
The Difference Between Variability & Uncertainty In Risk
Reader question: Dear Dr. Briggs I regularly read your blog and have purchased both your books. I especially liked your book on Uncertainty, although I need to study it a…
Posted inStatistics
Canada’s Science Coronadoom Model Discovers Canada’s Science Saved 800 Thousand Lives
Repeat after me: all models only say what they are told to say. Here it is, right from the hole of Theresa Tam (you recall it was that Canadian official's…
Posted inCulture Statistics
The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: How Belief In Failed Theories Persists
This article began as a series beginning 3 January 2009. I thought it well to revisit it as an example of how to investigate controversial Science. Clever readers will notice…
Posted inStatistics
How Many Digits Do You Report? A Surprising Answer
Question from Anon (with added paragraphifications): Message: Dear Dr Briggs, I am a lay man in statistics, who has tried to avoid this kind of sport as much as possible,…
Posted inStatistics
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…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Spurious Correlations Proves Hypothesis Testing Should Be Abandoned
This week traditionally is a slow week on the blog, so let me have a go at explaining something I've explained a few hundred times before, a thing which has…
Posted inStatistics
In Which We Answer The Pressing Question: Is Science Growing Stupider?
I was asked this question the other day: "Is science becoming stupider?" I was forced to answer this way: "Boy, howdy! Science will be lucky to reach stupid the end…