William M. Briggs

Scientists: GOP Women More Feminine Than Dems

Science! Unadulterated, peer-reviewed, glorious science! What else but science could have provided this picture, which was taken whole from the University of California press release on the shocking new scientific,…

Philosophy

8 Great Philosophical Questions That We’ll Never Solve—Update: Solved!

Surfing the internet is the wrong metaphor. Surfing is to skillfully ride a wave for thrills towards a destination. Aimlessly clicking enticing headlines in an effort to avoid responsibility and…

Fun

Why I Am Becoming A Democrat

This will come as a severe shock to long-time readers, but I am changing my political affiliation. Perhaps some of you saw it coming. I did not. To me, the…

Culture Philosophy

Dominicans And Jesuits Battle It Out Over Thomism—Guest Post by John Kelleher

First, I want to thank Matt for all he does. Not every Statistician to the Stars has risked career and fortune to teach an extraordinary and fruitful revolution in statistics,…

Culture

The Most Curious Use Of ‘Only’ You Will Ever See

Let's begin with a disclaimer: Yours Truly is not a psychologist, nor does he have psychiatric training. Therefore his use of lunatic, insane git, mentally deficient in the highest degree,…

Fun

Men’s Fashion & Style Dos and Don’ts

Fashion: Don't.1 This outfit is what happens when people watch too much television. Or substitute fashion for style. Everything save this gentleman's shoes is two sizes too small---and on purpose!…

Statistics

1 Billion To Die By 2030: Global Warming’s Deadly Rampage!

You read that number right, friend. One billion---that's billion-with-a-Carl-Sagan-B---fresh corpses will pile the streets by 2030. A billion! During these same years, global warming will be among us, hiding, seeking;…

Fun Statistics

Anno Aetheris Scriptori XLVIII

What we see in today's title the result of a lack of education. Latin nouns have more declensions than Chicago Aldermen have ways for a dead man to vote. I…

Codex on How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac MassNovember 29, 2024
Why would RFK kill all the cows?
Hagfish Bagpipe on Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of ThanksgivingNovember 28, 2024
An evergreen topic, Briggs. Thanks for posting it once again.
hudbwu on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 28, 2024
> but how can Islam worship the same God as Christians Because they searched existence for the Ultimate and they…
hudbwu on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 28, 2024
> It is an odd truth that whenever libs do stupid stuff they turn out to be relying on the…
John Pate on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 28, 2024
Nukes are as fake and gay as the moon landings. You guys are drinking too much Kool-aid for all your…

William M. Briggs

Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac Mass

Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I

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