William M. Briggs

Rest In Peace Ye Olde Statistician

Update https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1708975600894148671 Michael Francis Flynn, long known to friends of the blog as Ye Olde Statistician, or just YOS, died Saturday morning. God speed him, God rest him, God bless…

Statistics

Something Has Gone Seriously Wrong With “Climate Change” Science

When my boys and I seize power and I become emperor, the very first thing I do (after having the mess hosed clean) is to place a strict two-year moratorium…

Philosophy

The Many Troubles With Science: A Conversation With Jaap Hanekamp About Our Upcoming Book

The many troubles of science are these: Philosophy; Scientism; Utopianism; Catastrophism; Gnosticism; Faithlessness. My pal Jaap Hanekamp and I are writing a book on science, entitled---wait for it---Title Forthcoming. All…

Fun

The Time Is Now For It To Be Now. Again.

What's Up? Time for our biannual update, dear readers. My forays into this new thing called "video" have, at long last, begun. It took me so long because I do…

Culture

The Deadly Rise Of The Science Enforcers

The woke must needs have enemies. If they do not have them, they will create them. Their identities---and the woke are all about identities which create for them "lived experiences",…

Statistics

Experts: Everybody In Europe Died From Breathing Toxic Air

A toxin, as the redoubtable reader undoubtedly knows, is a poison. And a poison, says Mr Webster, is that which causes "morbid, noxious, or deadly effects". People who ingest or…

Statistics

All—As In All—Of The “Climate Change Made This Event More Likely” Claims Are False

Here's a typical recent propaganda headline: "Climate change made Libya flooding 50 times more likely: Report." This is not so. Here's another recent one from PBS: "Climate change made global…

Culture Philosophy

The Closer To REALITY, The Closer To Reality

There are any number of proofs of this proposition: The closer to Reality, the closer to reality. Here's one, recalling first that there is always a +/- to all surveys,…

Why Pope Benedict’s resignation was valid: a response to Dr. Mazza - LifeSite - Christianity House on The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’ReillyNovember 22, 2024
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Uncle Mike on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 22, 2024
It's a topsy-turvy world! The schools ban lunches but allow boys in the girls bathrooms. Peanuts bad, rape okay. But…
Oral.sk - Necenzurované správy Pre?o bola rezignácia pápeža Benedikta platná: odpove? Dr. Mazzovi on The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’ReillyNovember 22, 2024
[…] [5] Pozri “Debata o tom, ?i je pápež František pápežom, pokra?uje. Dva poh?ady Edmunda J. Mazzu a Stevena O’Reillyho,”…
Tars Tarkas on Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished ExpertNovember 22, 2024
"Lichtman, poor fellow, did not resist. I have sympathy for him. He has been sought, and lauded, every four years,…
McChuck on The Impossibilities Of Quantum ComputingNovember 22, 2024
@PhilH - What you are describing *is* quantum mechanics. More specifically, quantum field theory. Once you eliminate all the woo-hoo…

William M. Briggs

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

Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ Reviewed

The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then Suddenly

The Science Of Transitioning Children

Class 26: Randomization Does Nothing

Addicted To Drug — Statistics

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

The Impossibilities Of Quantum Computing

Rest In Peace Ye Olde Statistician

Something Has Gone Seriously Wrong With “Climate Change” Science

The Many Troubles With Science: A Conversation With Jaap Hanekamp About Our Upcoming Book

The Time Is Now For It To Be Now. Again.

The Deadly Rise Of The Science Enforcers

Experts: Everybody In Europe Died From Breathing Toxic Air

All—As In All—Of The “Climate Change Made This Event More Likely” Claims Are False

The Closer To REALITY, The Closer To Reality

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