William M. Briggs

Ireland’s Same-Sex Gmarriage Vote: Or, The Snakes Return?

Update See Saturday's post for results. Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has "no wish to stuff [his] religious views down other people's throats"---is that done with a shillelagh?---and so he won't…

Statistics

Are Wars And Violence Decreasing? Taleb’s New Paper Reviewed

The vale of tears I've been asked by several people to comment on Pasquale Cirillo and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's paper (thankfully, not peer-reviewed, unless you count this) "On the tail…

Culture

Democracy And The Global Warming Consensus—And That New Arizona Survey

Guy named Jonathan Overpeck who makes a living ensuring people are nervous about global warming conducted a survey of Arizona residents and discovered three-fourths of them are nervous about global…

Culture Philosophy

Vote For Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan For President: It’s The Intelligent Thing To Do

I normally don't vote in presidential elections because the choices are between flavors of progressivism---D-type, R-type, etc.---and I desire none. But scrappy "transhumanist" Zoltan Istvan has changed my mind. He…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Knows All At Same Instant

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. God is…

Culture

This Week In Doom: Grade Deflation

This week's doom: "higher" education, art, and sex. Racism's return It may be time to rethink the idea of academic freedom. Seems this professor blurted out a series of racist…

Culture

Encyclical Delayed, Possibly Downgraded To Lesser Form?

The encyclical might be downgraded to some lesser form of "statement." This is the rumor as reported to me from "sources." Given the excitement the encyclical generated on the left,…

Culture Statistics

The New Pew Religion Survey Isn’t What You Think (Probably)

Lot of chatter over the new Pew survey of religiosity, "Christians Decline Sharply as Share of Population; Unaffiliated and Other Faiths Continue to Grow". Main result: Christianity down, "nones" up.…

Cary Cotterman on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
I live near Loma Linda, California, where temperatures are normally 90 degrees F. or higher at least six months per…
Brian (bulaoren) on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
It's not the heat, it's the humidity
Uncle Mike on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
Warmer Is Better Rational#473: people live longer in warm climes! Absoheatinglutely. Correlation IS causation. Ha! I knew it all along.…
Paul Murphy on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
umm... does it make sense to ask whether yearly climate variability affects lifespans? Michigan, for example, is very hot and…
Michael Dowd on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
Factor to consider: Florida has a significant number of old folks who immigrated. They then start riding bicycles, walking, getting…

William M. Briggs

“Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!

David Hume’s Anti-Miracles Argument Is Poor

The Case For Ending Government Funding of Science

Class 41: What Is Cause Like?

Catholicism Vs The US Conference of Catholic Bishops — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

On Scott Adams’s Vax-Decision Analysis

Against The Anthropic Principle

Class 40: Welcome To Cause!

It’s Okay To Trust DOGE To Cut Cut Cut: Stream

Time To End Bad Science Like This

2,800 — And Growing — Scientists Butthurt Over Elon Musk Squeal To The Royal Society

Class 39: Trust Your Equations! (Bayes)

“Feminism Is A Disease Of The Rich”

Trump Slashing The Cancerous “The Science” Bloat: Cut Cut Cut!

On The Probability Of Large Rocks From Space!

Class 38: Truly Random & Information Complexity

The Path To Victory

On Various New Values Of P(Doom)

Putting The Stargate AI Hype Into Perspective (Stream)

Class 37: Simulations Aren’t What You Think

On The Limitations of AI: Predictions

“Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!

David Hume’s Anti-Miracles Argument Is Poor

Ireland’s Same-Sex Gmarriage Vote: Or, The Snakes Return?

Are Wars And Violence Decreasing? Taleb’s New Paper Reviewed

Democracy And The Global Warming Consensus—And That New Arizona Survey

Vote For Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan For President: It’s The Intelligent Thing To Do

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Knows All At Same Instant

This Week In Doom: Grade Deflation

Encyclical Delayed, Possibly Downgraded To Lesser Form?

The New Pew Religion Survey Isn’t What You Think (Probably)

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