William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Distinction of Orders

Previous post. Everywhere rank exists. ON THE DISTINCTION OF ORDERS 1 Let us now take this into consideration: The power ordered to some principal effect by nature has under it…

Fun

“If Uncle Sam ever gets whipped, here, too, it will be an inside job.”

I am on vacation for a few days. So I have a treat for you. This follows yesterday's post. Paul Harvey reminding us of inescapable facts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB42i0qg6A8 In which Harvey…

Culture

Malthus’s Proof That Welfare Leads To Increasing Need For Welfare Reexamined

This is an updated version of an original post that ran 3 February 2014. Here is a sketch of Malthus's argument that official government beneficence causes the problem it seeks…

Statistics

Researchers: Living Under The Sin-Of-Pride Flag Produces Flashbacks To Noah’s Flood

Read this The Science sentence with me and see if you enjoy it as much as I did: "Long before climate change, California’s Great Flood of 1862 stretched up to…

Culture

Why The Regime Insists Party Members Lie

Stay with me on this story. It's not big in itself, but telling. So a lefty politician is running for mayor in the Taiwan city of Taoyuan. He belongs to…

Philosophy

Sabine Hossenfelder Tries, Using Free Will, To Explain She Doesn’t Have Free Will

Here's a video Philosopher's Cabin asked me to review. We met its author, Sabine Hossenfelder, before, when she was trying to explain how black holes enhanced Diversity, or the other…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On The Priesthood

Previous post. Why priests are different. ON THE SACRAMENT OF ORDERS 1 It is, of course, clear from what has been said that in all the sacraments dealt with a…

Statistics

The Fall Of A Culture In One Minute Ten Seconds

It's all here, in this one video. The complete explanation for the last three years, and more. Sound on for the full horror: https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1556154856787873793 I have been informed by Experts…

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John 1:5 - And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
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William M. Briggs

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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 Evils, 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

Emergence Is Substance; Entanglement Is Substance: Science Is Healing

The Advent Of Lousy Music

Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

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