William M. Briggs

Everything, Science says, will kill you or ill you. Or cure you. Last week I gave readers homework to go to scholar.google.com and type in "X 'reduces' risk" (or 'increases')…

Reminder: The Class will now run at the end of the week. Here is a passage from The Enormous Egg, by Oliver Butterworth, written in the mid 1950s. A story…

Apologies: I meant to have this run on Thursday, but a huge burst of snowy spring came through and knocked out power all yesterday morning. First: Almost all models are…

This is Part II of The Limitations Of AI. See Part I: Predictive Ability. Forgive me this banality, but reminders of the obvious can bring clarity: AI runs on computers.…

I am moving the Class, which is rather specialized, to the end of the week. Credentialists are having a fit over the new regime whacking grant overhead and making other…

I am moving the Class, which is rather specialized, to the end of the week. Yesterday the New York Times, the written order-of-the-day for the old school left, put out…

Fr Robert McTeigue, SJ, host of The Catholic Current had me on last week. Show's title was Can Anyone Afford Feminism?  The answer is no. Today, an expansion of what…

Stick with me today, my friends. There is an important lesson buried in the madness, with a wider application than is at first apparent. A reader asked me to look…