William M. Briggs

Insanity & Doom Update XXII

This week: academics gone mad. Item It's Official: The Left Says Statistics Are Racist According to Campus Reform, a paper authored by three British professors argues that statistics "frequently encode…

Statistics

Science Says It’s Better To Be Single

The headline reads "It's better to be single, study finds." The study is the peer-reviewed paper "Does singlehood isolate or integrate? Examining the link between marital status and ties to…

Culture

Another State Might Ban Conversion Therapy, Forcing Some To Live With Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction

Stream: Another State Might Ban Conversion Therapy, Forcing Some To Live With Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction The Washington Times reports "Legislation banning gay conversion therapy for minors has narrowly passed the…

Fun

Time To Fast: I’m Giving Up The Internet For Lent

Our friend Jay Richards, editor of The Stream, has an excellent on-going series on fasting. In Part II, he discusses how our Lord fasted for forty days. By fasted Richards…

Statistics

The Limits Of Science

The title of this article could equally well be "The limits of philosophy" or of theology, or of any intellectual endeavor. The question is: can we continue to learn indefinitely?…

Statistics

What People Think Probability Words Mean

The graph above came from Github and was the result of a poll of folks on Reddit. "The raw data came from /r/samplesize responses to the following question: What [probability/number]…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Evil is Based on the Good

Previous post. We have a very easy week, a short chapter defining how evil is in a good thing, and what that means. This is a mopping up chapter, collecting…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update XXI

Readers will have to help me. I've been posting insane and doom-laden articles for so long they all start to look alike. I worry that I repeating links. But it…

Dan MacDougald on Men Are Better Than WomenOctober 8, 2024
We have a USNA graduate attending Ga Tech post grad who is playing rugby with us. He is in submarines.…
Robert Arvanitis on Men Are Better Than WomenOctober 8, 2024
Nice piece. Solid conclusion. Irrefutable. But only if we accept that obsolete Aristotelian dualism. Instead, embrace the healing power of…
Robert Arvanitis on Men Are Better Than WomenOctober 8, 2024
Fine analysis. Irrefutable in fact. But only if we cling to that obsolete, sexist, Aristotelian dualism. We must embrace the…
Johnno on We Either Learn To Suffer Like Russians, Or We Are Lost — Guest Post by Ianto WattOctober 7, 2024
It is interesting, there is common cause and bonds in those who learn to suffer together. Persecution does tend to…
Johnno on Scientists Induce Apoplexy (In Me) In Attempting To Tie Stroke To “Climate Change”October 7, 2024
We should create a paper that proves Climate Change is keeping more people alive in spite of the clot shots.…

William M. Briggs

Men Are Better Than Women

Class 23: An Infinity Of Hypotheses! (Bayes)

We Either Learn To Suffer Like Russians, Or We Are Lost — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Scientists Claim Keeping Men From Girls Locker Rooms Causes Men To Commit Suicide

Negative Evidence

Scientists Induce Apoplexy (In Me) In Attempting To Tie Stroke To “Climate Change”

Class 22: To The Continuum!

The Ladies Who’d Rather Brunch — Guest Post by Gaudia Certaminis

Return Of The 1970s!

Solzhenitsyn, Communism, Miracles & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

Class 21: Probability Of Hypotheses (Bayes)

A Theory Of Mis- & Disinformation & Its Uses In Propaganda

Clintel essay: Pope Francis’ Climate Crusade or the erosion of faith in God

“Racism” As An Expert Theory Health Crisis

Class 20: Probability Is Not Limiting Relative Frequency

Women Find A Solution To “Climate Change” Anxiety

We Are All Accidents Of Birth

Proposed Scientist Law: Do Good Work Or No Money

Class 19: Probability Is Not Subjective

Should Government Proscribe Equality? The Works Of David Stove 4

Coincidence: What Do George Washington & Three Red Banners Have To Do With Each Other?

Men Are Better Than Women

Class 23: An Infinity Of Hypotheses! (Bayes)

Insanity & Doom Update XXII

Science Says It’s Better To Be Single

Another State Might Ban Conversion Therapy, Forcing Some To Live With Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction

Time To Fast: I’m Giving Up The Internet For Lent

The Limits Of Science

What People Think Probability Words Mean

Summary Against Modern Thought: Evil is Based on the Good

Insanity & Doom Update XXI

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