William M. Briggs

Pro-Nonreproductive Sex-Like Activities Group Say Poland Has Most Based European Church

Finland, and by a wide margin, officially has the most debased Christian Church. It's called the Metropolitan Community Church in Finland. The numbers are a crude estimate, but about 3,000…

Statistics

Absolute Vs. Relative Risk Reduction; Trump Likes Vaccines; The Fabulous Fauci; Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam Getting Theirs; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXIII

WE CONTINUE The consensus---and we never buck consensii; consensuses?---was to keep these updates going for the time being, but expanding their scope. I have therefore cut back on some of…

Culture

Woman Who Said Women Have Vaginas Attacked By Invasive Species

The woman, Lisa Keogh, is a law student at Abertay "University", which itself is in a near-frozen wasteland of strange and curious creatures, which were once largely unknown in the…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity VII

Previous post. Having finished with the divinity of Jesus, we move to the divinity of the Holy Ghost. One very short chapter, one long. ON THE HOLY SPIRIT, THAT HE…

Culture

The Toxic Femininity of Hate Speech

"Hate crimes" are effeminate. It isn't that motive in crime is unimportant when considering crime, but calling "hate" a crime is absurd because it punishes thought, not actions. It's not…

Statistics

Academics Fail To Prove COVID Lockdowns Were Painless and Effective

Maybe you have a story like this. A barber I know was shut down by one of the lockdowns various state governments experimented with during the coronadoom panic, in a…

Culture

The Evil Forces Causing Some People To Be Better Than Others

We saw recently that the Army, despairing over disparities in male-female fitness standards, lowered those standards. Which always happens when Equity quotas are mandated. The problem was that the females…

Statistics

Defending The Canceled Mask Paper; Gain-Of-Lethality Confirmed?; Time We Quit These Updates? — Coronavirus Update LXXII

NOTHING MORTAL GOES FOREVER Should we quit these updates? I know I've grown sick of them. Are you? Maybe replace them with articles when warranted, such as what our dear…

spetzer86 on Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say AcademicsJuly 20, 2026
How are hash browns "ultra-processed"? They are essentially baked potatoes that were shredded and then fried until their collective exteriors…
Jethro Rusticus on Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say AcademicsJuly 20, 2026
Alternative interpretation of the data: Believing in God mKes you less depressed so you eat rather than starve yourself like…
John W. Garrett on The Equality ParadoxJuly 20, 2026
In the 20th century, it was quite easy to tell who the liars of Wall Street were. They all wore…
Hun on The Equality ParadoxJuly 20, 2026
This is prole drift. In the past, the ruling class consisted of people who had to fight or have some…
Brian (bulaoren) on Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say AcademicsJuly 20, 2026
Is this God salience said to affect our other appetites?

William M. Briggs

Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics

Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics

University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing

The Equality Paradox

My Horrible Interaction With AI

SOON

The Court’s Slow Theft Of The Constitution — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Happy Birthday to US

Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)

Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!

The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove

Marbles!

Class 92: Simple Optimal Decisions: PSA & Cancer Example

Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic

Truly Random Numbers Found?

Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC

Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!

The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers

Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?

No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders

How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?

Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics

Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics

Pro-Nonreproductive Sex-Like Activities Group Say Poland Has Most Based European Church

Absolute Vs. Relative Risk Reduction; Trump Likes Vaccines; The Fabulous Fauci; Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam Getting Theirs; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXIII

Woman Who Said Women Have Vaginas Attacked By Invasive Species

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity VII

The Toxic Femininity of Hate Speech

Academics Fail To Prove COVID Lockdowns Were Painless and Effective

The Evil Forces Causing Some People To Be Better Than Others

Defending The Canceled Mask Paper; Gain-Of-Lethality Confirmed?; Time We Quit These Updates? — Coronavirus Update LXXII

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