William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: More Error Corrections About Baptism & The Eucharist

Previous post. The second set of errors about the Eucharist are fixed up this week. SOLUTION OF THE OBJECTIONS MADE REGARDING PLACE 1 Now, after we have considered these points…

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“Racism” Is Rational

"Racism", the late-great philosopher David Stove told us in his gorgeous essay "Racial and Other Antagonisms" (found, e.g., here), is "one of those words which are so perfectly foolish that…

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I’m Gonna Do Some Epistemic Violence All Over His Posterior

Here is the abstract (with my paragraphifications and emphasis) from the peer-reviewed paper "The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality" appearing in Political Geography by someone named Sultana. The extremely uneven…

Culture

Safety First! & School Shootings

Have we learned nothing? Don't bother answering. It's a rhetorical question, and a dreary one. After two years of panic and subjecting ourselves to "solutions" to solve a crisis invented…

Philosophy

Yuval Noah Harari’s Bad Argument About AI Ruling The World

Here, in his own words, is the argument Yuval Noah Harari uses to justify his transhumanism. 1. Organisms are algorithms. Every animal — including Homo sapiens — is an assemblage…

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The Tale of Chief Harry Kidder: The US Navy’s On-The-Roof Gang by Matt Zullo Reviewed

The tale of Harry Kidder is a good but sad one. His story, and the stories of other radiomen before and during the Pacific War, are told in Matt Zulo's…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Correcting Errors About Baptism & The Eucharist

Previous post. The first set of errors about the Eucharist are fixed up this week. SOLUTION OF THE DIFFICULTIES SET DOWN: FIRST, ABOUT THE CONVERSION OF THE BREAD HIM THE…

Culture

Please Don’t Go To College — American Greatness

In the year of our Common Era 1625, Cardinal Richelieu made this prediction: "If learning were profaned by being made available to all and sundry, it would be found that…

Johnno on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 28, 2024
"The No. 1 mystical belief of the age of science was that the methods of the natural sciences can and…
Johnno on Merry Christmas!December 28, 2024
Merry Christmas!
Bernard Carlisle on Merry Christmas!December 26, 2024
Great parting shot on the “Santa Math” episode: “Come back if you want to hear about the Easter Bunny”. Always…
McChuck on Merry Christmas!December 26, 2024
A very merry Christmas to all!
Ignacio García Blanco on Merry Christmas!December 26, 2024
Merry Christmas!!!

William M. Briggs

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 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