William M. Briggs

Podcast Radio Show – Episode #3: Call the Health Police!

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_07oct2009_0003.mp3[/podcast] On today's episode: What is health? Herr Mencken, the Sage of Baltimore: "a degree of adaptation to the organism's environment so nearly complete that there is no irritation." Health…

Culture

The Case of the Rape-rape Patrol: a 17th precinct mini-mystery

We last met Officer Hannigan and Sergeant Fitzgerald in The Case of the Missing Global Warming and The Age of Stupid "Sarge, we got a call." Officer Hannigan motioned to…

Statistics

About Half Will Not Pay Federal Income Tax: Plus, A Solution To This Unfairness

What's to stop a large bloc of voters from joining forces to create laws so that they get a free ride, that they, in effect, make everybody else pay their…

Podcast Statistics

Podcast Radio Show – Episode #2: The Limits of Human Knowledge and The Singularity

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_30sep2009_0002.mp3[/podcast] On today's show: Update 3 Oct: The show appears to be available on iTunes. Search Podcasts for "Briggs" under "Title." If anybody has difficulties downloading, please let me know.…

Culture

The Theory of Increasing Government Idiocy

In software, it's called feature creep. This is the bloat or encrustation that forms on a working computer program. It is caused by adding overly specific functions that originate with…

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Coincidence?

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Culture

Blasphemy Contest!

No, I am not kidding; and, no, it isn't mine. But, asinine as it sounds, a real-life, swear-against-God, Blasphemy contest. The so-called Center for Inquiry (CFI) is an off-shoot, rather…

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Podcast Radio Show—Episode #1: The Mind of the Climate Activist

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/ep_23sep2009_0001.mp3[/podcast] Welcome to the first show! Update If you are want to download, but are unfamiliar how, click the Podcasts RSS feed on the left part of the webpage. You'll…

Johnno on Environmental Experts To Rip Out Trees, Build Solar Electric Plant In Snow Belt To “Save The Environment”January 8, 2025
Shawn Marshall, it all started with the giddy-ness that is heliocentrism, the one model to rule them all and in…
Johnno on Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)January 8, 2025
But Briggs, have you tested your article for faks and Mrs. Information? Better hurry, these services may not be available…
Yancey Ward on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 8, 2025
A bit late to it: (1) King Charles dissolves the government in June forcing new elections in the UK which…
John McKeon on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 8, 2025
One more prediction: Briggs will start using a better blogging platform. One that can perform computations LIVE in the post…
Milton Hathaway on Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)January 8, 2025
I consider myself an Expert in skepticism, and I like to apply it well beyond my area of Expertise. Perhaps…

William M. Briggs

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

Register Your Predictions For 2025!

Happy New Year!

How Did We Do In Our 2024 Predictions?

Hot New The Science: Kids Are Having Climate Emotions

Merry Christmas!

The Lesson Scientists Never Learn

House Cramnibus Funds New Follow-The-Science Panics

Probability Puzzle Paradox: Which Boxes To Take?

As Woke Falls, What Rises?

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

Who’s Better at Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls?

How The Enlightenment Led To Contraception (And Other Forms of Anti-Natal Behavior)

Science Model Told To Say Masks Work Discovers Masks Work

In Which Feynman Makes A Mistake: Negative Probabilities (Used In AI, QM, Finance)

Class 31: How Views Diverge With New Evidence

Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach

What Health Insurance Should Be, But Isn’t

England Voted To Have Doctors Kill Their Patients

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”

Podcast Radio Show – Episode #3: Call the Health Police!

The Case of the Rape-rape Patrol: a 17th precinct mini-mystery

About Half Will Not Pay Federal Income Tax: Plus, A Solution To This Unfairness

Podcast Radio Show – Episode #2: The Limits of Human Knowledge and The Singularity

The Theory of Increasing Government Idiocy

Coincidence?

Blasphemy Contest!

Podcast Radio Show—Episode #1: The Mind of the Climate Activist

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