William M. Briggs

I received this very thoughtful criticism on a Class video at YouTube, which I take to be most kind, and found it important enough to answer here. I love these…

Academic philosophers Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva have written a peer-reviewed paper in which they say that killing newborns is A-OK, and even in some cases to be encouraged. Their “After-birth abortion:…

Isaac Asimov in The Naked Sun, one of his many robot-mystery books, wrote that the minds of his positronic-brained robots (unlike our forever-dumb switch-brained computers) were “Logical but not reasonable.”…

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have…

Before us today is an excellent example of the Appeal To Non-Authority Fallacy, as described below and, more fully, in the upcoming second edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong.…

Before us today may be the most pristine example of female privilege since the Lindsay Clancy trial. You have heard of "peer review", the sad system of guaranteeing banality and…

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have…

This originally appeared at Jaap's blog, and is presented lightly edited here. He and I have looked at several of the "forever chemical" papers and, so far anyway, have found…