William M. Briggs

On Not Winning The Lottery: Horrible Death & Strategies For Winning

Still Here The unthinkable has happened: neither I, nor most certainly you, have won the lottery. Notice I did not use the word "inconceivable", but merely "unthinkable." For while it…

Fun Statistics

What I Will Do When I Win The Lottery

This will be my last blog post. At least, my last for some time. For I have bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket, whose face value is reportedly $540 million…

Fun

Eugene O’Neill & KDE: Help!

I recently switched my GTK+ Appearance to Rayleigh to get Banshee to run on my KDE laptop, but after two days of that Banshee crashed and the system font has…

Philosophy

Bioengineering Humans To Combat Climate Change

Aren't bioethicists a fun bunch? When last we met this speculative crew, they were wondering whether we should "let baby live", and they were developing a pill to eliminate racism.…

Culture

My Failure To Purchase Something In The Market Subjects Me To Regulation

The title words were spoken to Solicitor General Verrilli by Justice Scalia in yesterday's oral arguments. Scalia was making the obvious point that because he might not buy a thing…

Book review Philosophy

The Universe Created From Nothing Says Lawrence Krauss

This fragment of conversation was reported to me by a reliable witness. It occurred between a gentlemen we will call "Daffy" and Lawrence M. Krauss upon the occasion of the…

Culture

Supreme Court To Check The Doctrine Of Unintended Consequences?

This country, like all other countries, has at times lost its mind. But this country, again like all others, since it is constituted differently than the others, goes insane in…

Culture

Why You Don’t Want Free Health Care: Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Obamacare

Our reading today is from the Constitution, first Act, eighth Section, third Clause: [The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and…

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…
C-Marie on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 28, 2024
Vatican II and Pope John Paul II, declared that Islam worships the same God asChristians do because Islam says there…
AAPS News November 2024 – A Change In Direction? – AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons on What The Covid Panic Did To ScienceNovember 27, 2024
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Uncle Mike on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
Dear Joy, Goodness always wins in the end. Or the End. All powerful is not a speculation. Keep the faith.…
Paul Murphy on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
It is an odd truth that whenever libs do stupid stuff they turn out to be relying on the other…

William M. Briggs

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

The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then Suddenly

Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

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

On Not Winning The Lottery: Horrible Death & Strategies For Winning

What I Will Do When I Win The Lottery

Eugene O’Neill & KDE: Help!

Bioengineering Humans To Combat Climate Change

My Failure To Purchase Something In The Market Subjects Me To Regulation

The Universe Created From Nothing Says Lawrence Krauss

Supreme Court To Check The Doctrine Of Unintended Consequences?

Why You Don’t Want Free Health Care: Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Obamacare

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