William M. Briggs

When Does A Small Probability Mean Impossibility?

Question from reader Richard Stevens: A professional scientist, holding an MS in one of the hard sciences, addressed the argument that the probability of creating a protein or an enzyme…

Culture

O’Brian On Democracy — “Pernicious Nonsense” Etc.

If some literature student (in a non-Western ideology-soaked department) is looking for thesis material, Patrick O'Brian on the evils of democracy is it. Here, only one snippet, from The Yellow…

Culture

Bad Arguments Used To Push Gun Confiscation

There are many lousy arguments used to push for gun confiscation, many of which are well known. Here are four which are either newer or less well known, but which…

Culture

James Lovelock’s Error-Making Capabilities Peak At 100

Happy Birthday to the old boy. Who really is a full century of years, God bless him. I happened upon a copy of the BBC's Science Focus in an airport…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Free Will Is Still Subject To God

Previous post. God can bend the will. Why not? How He does so, is not given here. THAT HUMAN ACTS OF CHOICE AND OF WILL ARE SUBJECT TO DIVINE PROVIDENCE…

Fun

The Week In Good News

All Doom and no sunshine makes Jack a dull boy. Even in decline a culture has bright spots. I'll start: God willing, tomorrow I will polkaing like a madman. Your…

Culture

Beware Of Christian Nationalism! Say…Christian Leaders?

List all the realistic political terrors in operation or on the horizon. Big Brother surveillance from government and corporations. Tolerance of Antifa---in government and corporations. Just plain government and corporations.…

Philosophy

Darwinian Delusions Discussed Discursively

Let's watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noj4phMT9OE Round table with Stephen Meyer, David Berlinski, and David Gelernter. The occasion was Gelernter's review of Meyer's and Berlinski's anti-Darwin book in Claremont Review "Given up…

Chaeremon on Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto WattNovember 29, 2024
the [geopolitical] state of affairs does not evolve by trying the same thing again to get better results (aka idiocy…
C-Marie on Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto WattNovember 29, 2024
Remember, Jesus Christ is the only Saviour. Be His. Believe Him. Trust Him. Have full confidence in Him. Here is…
Paul Murphy on Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto WattNovember 29, 2024
where to start.. 1 - I think the Chinese conspiracy vision of what's going on between Russia and the EU/US…
Michael Dowd on Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto WattNovember 29, 2024
Alternate essay topic based on Trump hiring war mongering types for his administration. He did this because he and his…
SHAWN E MARSHALL on Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto WattNovember 29, 2024
It seems the Bear has castrated Uncle Sam with a much smaller defense budget, The Military Industrial Complex in the…

William M. Briggs

Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac Mass

Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

The Impossibilities Of Quantum Computing

What Science Can Say About Vaccines: And What It Can’t Say

Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished Expert

Class 29: Nothing Has A Distribution

Women Let Him Win — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In Science

Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way?

Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their Prestige

Class 28: Randomization Redux (Randomization Does Nothing)

If We Are What We Sexually Desire, How About These Curious People?

What The Covid Panic Did To Science

We Win

See You On The Other Side

Class 27: Probability Is In Your Mind, Not Things

How Tim Walz Did Not Know Models Only Say What They’re Told To Say

Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

When Does A Small Probability Mean Impossibility?

O’Brian On Democracy — “Pernicious Nonsense” Etc.

Bad Arguments Used To Push Gun Confiscation

James Lovelock’s Error-Making Capabilities Peak At 100

Summary Against Modern Thought: Free Will Is Still Subject To God

The Week In Good News

Beware Of Christian Nationalism! Say…Christian Leaders?

Darwinian Delusions Discussed Discursively

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