William M. Briggs

$The Nightmare Of The Woke & The Elimination Of Standards$

The Nightmare Of The Woke & The Elimination Of Standards

Here's the news from the Great White-Supremacist-No-More North: The Vancouver School Board is cutting honours programs for secondary school students effective this fall. Honours math and science will be cut,…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity XI

Previous post. We continue the, admittedly very long, investigation into the Holy Ghost. ON THE EFFECTS ATTRIBUTED TO THE HOLY SPIRIT IN SCRIPTURE REGARDING THE WHOLE CREATION 1 One must,…

Culture

The Nature Of Civil Authority (Government) & Treason — Guest Post by Oldavid

The premises of this discourse are: that it is the nature of Man (humanity) to live in society; a functional society requires order. I will define civil order as an…

Culture

“Behold! I Have Become A God!” Said The Weightlifter

You've heard the news. Some man from New Zealand who is pretending to be a woman has been granted the right to compete with real women in the Olympics. The…

Culture

SCOTUS & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

The State always, or at least when it does not sleep, seeks to impose its beliefs on everybody. It does this through the creation of laws, which most people (except…

Statistics

Vexxines Killing Kids? Cult Of The Mask; Cult Of The Science; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXVI

ALL CAUSE DEATHS This is usually in the numbers section, but I worry the point I'm making is getting lost. The week-of-the-year all-cause deaths. Green line is 2021, red is…

Statistics

Solution To The Kind-Hearted Magician — REVEALED!

Kip Hansen last week gave us the following scenario (which I've pared to bare essentials here, but check the original if you fret): START Sam shows us three cards, two…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity X

Previous post. The Holy Ghost, at least to me, is the most confusing aspect of the Trinity. There follows a few lessons on what He is. HOW ONE MUST UNDERSTAND…

Tim on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 8, 2025
What are you playing at, Briggs? Some high-falutin' model equation junk that'll get twisted by politicians in the end anyway?…
Milton Hathaway on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 8, 2025
I have been making heavy use of the more well-known LLMs lately. I use them almost exclusively as "regurgitation engines",…
shawn marshall on Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?May 7, 2025
Let us not discredit the demonic.
Cary Cotterman on Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?May 7, 2025
Blair: "...lightning came inside and chased her to a back bedroom." Anyone who can outrun lightning, even if it's only…
McChuck on Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?May 7, 2025
I knew a fellow win the Army who had been struck by lightning three times. Whenever he heard thunder, he…

William M. Briggs

Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In Models

Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?

Reproducibility Crises Will Be Forever With Us Until We Abandon Classical Statistics

AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor Lie

Class 48: What Is A Model?

I’m Going To Sue Scientists Who Gave Me Apoplexy Over Claims Of Climate Liability

Researchers Tell Models To Say People Will Die Without Your Money

The Sun Made To Set On The British Empire – Via Science!

Class 47: Billions Of Models!

A New Physics Arises: Irreducible by Federico Faggin Reviewed

Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help Requested

Class 46: Explanation & Abductive Weakness

The Educational Empire Strikes Back

Can Jinn & The Evil Eye Cause Disease?

Science: The Bigger The Hole In The Head, The More Politically Active

Class 45: The False Hope Of Falsification

New Paper Says Flu Vax Increases Chance Of Flu: Let’s Look

A Simple Argument Proving You Must Not Trust Standard Scientific Evidence

Power Restored, Posts To Resume

No posts, class. No power, no internet

MIT Scientists Trying To Invent Zombies

Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In Models

Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?

The Nightmare Of The Woke & The Elimination Of Standards

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity XI

The Nature Of Civil Authority (Government) & Treason — Guest Post by Oldavid

“Behold! I Have Become A God!” Said The Weightlifter

SCOTUS & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

Vexxines Killing Kids? Cult Of The Mask; Cult Of The Science; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXVI

Solution To The Kind-Hearted Magician — REVEALED!

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity X

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification