William M. Briggs

Dawkins Gets It Wrong Again: Similar Is Not The Same

Richard Dawkins in an article to the New Statesman---the same issue which somebody who obviously wasn't in full possession of his faculties assigned to Dawkins as editor---the Christmas issue, mind---an…

Statistics

We’re 88% Through The International Year Of Statistics

I hadn't any idea we'd even started. But thanks to reader Dan Hughes and his link to the Wall Street Journal story Odds Lot: Statisticians Party Like It's 2.013 x…

Statistics

Nonstatisticians Often Screw Up Statistics

Title stolen from article of same name by Leland Teschler in the trade journal Machine Design. Update Statisticians often screw up statistics, too. See below. The article is the result…

Statistics

Johnson’s Revised Standards For Statistical Evidence

Thanks to the many readers who sent me Johnson's paper, which is here (pdf). Those who haven't will want to read "Everything Wrong With P-values Under One Roof", the material…

Fun

Briggs Exposes His Better Side

These are the pants I wore yesterday through airports, airplanes, taxis, and the streets of San Francisco, thus exposing my better side to roughly half the country. Notice that the…

Statistics

Racist Researchers, The Racists, Accuse Gun Owners Of Racism, You Racist

That kick-butt guy in the black wig is me, kung fu-ing the stuffing out of asinine research. Listen to the klaxon clang as evildoers discover we are among them! Or…

Fun

A Veteran’s Day Tale

From 1986 to 1989, I was stationed at Kadena Air Force Base, smack in the middle of Okinawa. Which wasn't hard. Being in the middle, I mean. The island is…

Fun Philosophy

Thomas Aquinas & Philosophical Realism

Dozens of big brains, and one fat head held aloft by Yours Truly, crammed into a small room yesterday to hear all there was to know, more or less, about…

Cary Cotterman on The Death Of DIE—In University ScienceJanuary 23, 2025
In much the same way "global warming" became "climate change", "affirmative action" became "DEI" and just kept going. They'll just…
KGB on The Death Of DIE—In University ScienceJanuary 23, 2025
A single commercial is not enough. I want entire networks overtly and publicly dedicated to providing white-only entertainment, much as…
The Death Of DIE—In University Science – William M. Briggs on NSF to Science: DIE! Science to NSF: Bye!January 23, 2025
[…] money often went to DIE, as we discussed many times over the years. We saw recently (blog/Substack) a good…
Johnno on Vaccine Bullying Is ScientismJanuary 22, 2025
The hersteric is worried about the gains-of-function-science where the more science they can inject into your life, the more money…
Pk on Vaccine Bullying Is ScientismJanuary 22, 2025
The utilitarianism was too evident yesterday in Trump’s presser with the three AI billionaires announcing some new adventure. They claimed…

William M. Briggs

The Death Of DIE—In University Science

Vaccine Bullying Is Scientism

I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I Need

Class 35: The Grand Scheme: All Of Probability & Uncertainty In 30 Minutes

More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t Enough

Surgeon General Demands Label War Against Wine

Class 34: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology III

England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”

Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)

Environmental Experts To Rip Out Trees, Build Solar Electric Plant In Snow Belt To “Save The Environment”

Class 33: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology II

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Class 32: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology I (All Should Read)

The Death Of DIE—In University Science

Vaccine Bullying Is Scientism

Dawkins Gets It Wrong Again: Similar Is Not The Same

We’re 88% Through The International Year Of Statistics

Nonstatisticians Often Screw Up Statistics

Johnson’s Revised Standards For Statistical Evidence

Briggs Exposes His Better Side

Racist Researchers, The Racists, Accuse Gun Owners Of Racism, You Racist

A Veteran’s Day Tale

Thomas Aquinas & Philosophical Realism

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