William M. Briggs

Orthodox Rabbi Suggests Adam & Eve ‘Black Transgender Refugees’

Trouble with words, is that if you're not diligent corruption can set in and cause a label to become garbled or meaningless. Such happened with conservative, which once meant "upholder…

Culture Philosophy

Could You Do Progressivism, But From The Right?

Today's discussion question is posed by somebody calling himself Iulian Bretonescu, in "The Right Religion", which is mandatory reading. Here, for the exceptionally lazy, is a brief summary. (The literature…

Book review Culture

Reaction: Anthony Esolen’s ‘Out of the Ashes’ Reviewed

I want everybody to read Anthony Esolen's Out of the Ashes. Buy it if you can; at least borrow it. Libraries still exist in many places, and some of them…

Culture Statistics

Science of Global Warming Reduced to Raw Emotion at People’s Climate March: Updates

The Summa Contra Gentiles sequence will return next and not this week as announced last week. Why? Because I forgot the zombies were going to take to the streets---again. Like…

Culture

Stairway To Heaven, Or To Atheism? — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

What does 'a bustle in the hedgerow' mean? I'm referring to a previous post, wherein I said Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Paige was a liar. Why? Because there isn't 'still time…

Culture Statistics

Vox Populi vs. Experts

On 7 March 1907, Francis Galton wrote a brief, but interesting article for Nature entitled Vox Populi, which opens, "In these democratic days, any investigation into the trustworthiness and peculiarities…

Culture

Leftists Ramping Up The Violence: How Long Until They Kill Somebody?

Stream: Leftists Ramping Up The Violence: How Long Until They Kill Somebody? How long before somebody gets killed by an enraged leftist? Let's start a pool. I'll be the bookie…

Culture

Home School College

Note: a more thorough review of Esolen's book is coming very soon. Thanks to Ben Franklin, it has always been possible to home-school yourself to a college education. Libraries let…

Rudolph Harrier on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
The other day I was at a statistics talk about a proposed method for meta-analysis, specifically for combining p-values in…
hudbwu on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
I've been informed that the old-timey literacy tests were meant to disenfrenchise black people by being deliberately near-impossible to pass,…
Dana on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
No matter for whom you vote, a politician gets elected.
Milton Hathaway on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
We engineers deal often with root cause analysis. It's usually deceptively harder than it initially seems for any given failure…
Cloudbuster on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
Paul: "Cloudbuster: check q. 6" Yeah, I thought that one was poorly worded, too. You can interpret it in at…

William M. Briggs

The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For Voting

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

The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For Voting

Men Are Better Than Women

Orthodox Rabbi Suggests Adam & Eve ‘Black Transgender Refugees’

Could You Do Progressivism, But From The Right?

Reaction: Anthony Esolen’s ‘Out of the Ashes’ Reviewed

Science of Global Warming Reduced to Raw Emotion at People’s Climate March: Updates

Stairway To Heaven, Or To Atheism? — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Vox Populi vs. Experts

Leftists Ramping Up The Violence: How Long Until They Kill Somebody?

Home School College

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