Classic Articles

There is over ten years worth of material on the blog on wide-ranging subjects. First stop is the category drop-down menu, to the right on large screens and at the bottom of small ones. Use the search box for your own terms, or click one of the main terms below. Or type “site:wmbriggs.com your_search_terms” into your brower’s address bar.

Main search terms

• Global Warming & The Environment
• Fallacies
• Diversity & Equality
• Bioethics
• Free Will
• Same-sex ‘marriage’
• Homosexuality
• Randomness & Chance
• Time Series & Data Handling
• Epidemiologist Fallacy
• Firearms & Homicide
• Mini Plays
• Why models run hot, Reporters & Willie Soon affair

Philosophy & Culture

• Atheism
• Miracles
• Genetic engineering
• Eugenics
• Scientific Ethicist
• Artificial Intelligence
• Abortion
• Voting
• Universities
• Music

Essential Book Reviews

• Edward Feser. The Last Superstition
• Peter Kreeft. Summa Philosophica
• David Stove. What’s Wrong With Benevolence?
• Steven Goldberg. Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences
• Jonah Goldberg. Liberal Fascism
• David Bentley Hart. The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Being
• Charles Murray. Real Education
• Brainwashed
• My Genes Made Me Vote For Obama: Predisposed
• Robert R. Reilly Making Gay Okay

Probability & Statistics

• Probability
• Machine Learning
• P-values
• Parameters
• Paradoxes
• Simulations: Markov Chain Monte Carlo
• Models
• Regression
• Bayes
• Grue
• Smoothing
• Polls
• Dutch books
• Predictions
• Vaccines

Global Warming & The Environment

• Global warming
• Climatology
• The Pause
• Temperature
• Trends
• Smoothing time series
• Scoring rules for forecasts
• Funding
• Why Models Run Hot paper
• Willie Soon affair
• Witch hunt
• The hacking