August 2013 – William M. Briggs

Abortion Safety: Doctors V. Nurses & Physician Assistants & Midwives—Part I

Cautionary Introduction In Part II, we will examine the paper "Safety of Aspiration Abortion Performed by Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Physician Assistants Under a California Legal Waiver" in…

Statistics

Some Hollywood Money Statistics

Here, for no reason I can identify except I found it fun and the last long weekend of summer is upon us, are some statistics on the state of Hollywood…

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Preferred Female Body Proportions Among Child-Free Men

"Did you see her? Just my kind of adequate gluteofemoral fat stores!" "No way, man. The kind of reproduction-related attractiveness cues I go for are located further north. I likes…

Culture Statistics

Visualization Of Biblical Cross References And Supposed Contradictions

Chris Harris created some pretty graphics showing Biblical cross references and other such things. Below is the main result: The bar graph that runs along the bottom represents all of…

Culture

On The College Bubble—Update

Must-reading from the Wall Street Journal. Richard Vedder: "The Real Reason College Costs So Much. The expert on the economics of higher education explains how subsidies fuel rising prices and…

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Genre Fiction—Guest Post by D.B.

"I have a confession to make," said Jayden. "You won't like it." Abby slowed to a stop, her limbs not responding. She knew this was coming. Something that was not…

Culture

Loome Theological Booksellers

Have you been yet to Loome Theological Booksellers? Today's the day. I learnt of this place from Brandon Vogt's piece, Why Catholic Books Still Matter: An Interview with Christopher Hagen.…

Statistics

Too Damn Sure: The Epidemiologist Fallacy

Introduction Marchmain Pharmaceuticals distributes profitizol, said to cure the screaming willies. To assess that claim, Marchmain assembled volunteers suffering this dread malady. Each provided his address, which was used to…

BDavi52 on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 25, 2024
Rudolph H. Sounds like a wonderful solution to the 'life makes me anxious' problem. AI tells me what to do...and…
Briggs on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Paul, Just like math, like analytics. No experimental debunking.
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I have not read Smith, but stand by my general assertion that metaphysics is much much easier than physics. Hey…
Briggs on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Heresolong, I have no idea why. Can you provide more detail? You can also try the Substack mirror: https://wmbriggs.substack.com/
Hagfish Bagpipe on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Fascinating, amazing, fragrant, and semi-scrutable. Thanks, never heard of the man before.