William M. Briggs

Murders In America’s 33 Largest Cities: Update, Did The Internet Cause Murder Rate To Drop?

Update: See below for crazy theory. Here are the number of murders and non-negligent manslaughters in cities with at least half a million citizens, from 1985 to 2009, the last…

Culture Philosophy

Rights, Rights, And More Rights—But No Responsibilities

Busy day. So here, just for fun, and woefully incomplete, are a list of "rights" recently discovered. Remember: there can be no rights without responsibilities. If you invoke a right,…

Statistics

Death Threats And Tattoos: Climate Frenzy Update

Concentration Camps To Re-educate Deniers Next? It's time to make public examples of those that disagree with reporter, and non-science-educated Richard Glover's view of climate change. He would have skeptics…

Statistics

Bad Statistics Is Now A Crime

All p-values are not created equal, nor equally. Use one inappropriately, and you can land in jail. Just like Scott "Baron" (I'm guessing) Harkonen, former CEO of InterMune, a company…

Fun

Caught With My Pants Down

No, not like Andrew "Stuffed Shorts" Weiner. I mean literally, as in the picture below, taken while walking across the Manhattan Bridge. A guy on a bike, who I later…

Philosophy

Stephen Hawking Says Heaven Fairy Story

"There is no heaven; it's a fairy story," said Stephen Hawking to The Guardian. And since the wheelchair-bound physicist is famous, and known to be clever (despite bedevilment by disease),…

Book review Culture

Works Of High Seriousness: Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill

Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill What a stimulating journey through the greatest works of literature, interpreted with a mind towards statecraft. Hill wants us to…

Statistics

Can Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

2015 --- Dateline, New York City. Michael Bloomberg, who after purchasing his fourth term as Mayor of Gotham, today signed into law a ban on cellphones in public. This follows…

Tillman Eddy on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 20, 2024
“ The local truth they believe is that cutting off a little boy's testicles will turn him into a girl.‘…
stoichastic on If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?April 19, 2024
And who could forget the other canard of the century: quantum computing "climate change" giving us the inimitable "Quantum computing…
stoichastic on If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?April 19, 2024
I tried to break the algorithm by invoking canardception, alas, like Rule 42, I failed in my endeavour: string theory…
Johnno on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
It is said that the Boghossian Philosophers favorite flavor of ice cream was a particular locally sourced chocolate. I take…
Hagfish Bagpipe on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
Briggs: "...some complained of having to learn philosophy..." Theology too.

William M. Briggs

The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth Edition

William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – Thorinquiry

Winning Is Losing: Yarvin vs Rufo. Added: Was NatCon A Victory?

Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support Israel

Class 2: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Quid Est Veritas

The Week In Doom: Follow The Science Edition

MRI Claims 92% Accuracy Predicting Sexual “Orientation”. My Schmengee Mediscan 3000™ Beats It

Science Proves Isaac Newton Doesn’t Even Break Into Top 8,000 All Time Greatest Scientists

Look! Up In The Sky! It’s BIRD FLU!

Class 1: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Logic Teaser

Triumphant Return of The Week In Doom! Birth Prevention Edition

Artificial Intelligence and Irrational Fears — Guest Post by Jim Fedako

Did Republicans Report More Vax Adverse Events? How Not To Do Statistics

Never Safety First

Changes & Announcing The Uncertainty Probability Science Statistics Class

Christ Is Risen

It Should Be Illegal To Question, Ridicule, Downplay or Deny The Resurrection

Our Rulers Are Insane

That New Intermittent-Fasting-Is-Deadly Study Is Not So Hot

Probability Is Not Frequentist, Nor Math, Nor Real, Nor Subjective

The Courage To Open Fire

The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth Edition

William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – Thorinquiry

Murders In America’s 33 Largest Cities: Update, Did The Internet Cause Murder Rate To Drop?

Rights, Rights, And More Rights—But No Responsibilities

Death Threats And Tattoos: Climate Frenzy Update

Bad Statistics Is Now A Crime

Caught With My Pants Down

Stephen Hawking Says Heaven Fairy Story

Works Of High Seriousness: Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill

Can Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – Thorinquiry

Never Safety First

Probability Is Not Frequentist, Nor Math, Nor Real, Nor Subjective

Does Quantum Mechanics Speak To Theology? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland