2014 – Page 19 – William M. Briggs

Another Academic Calls For Shorter People To Battle Global Warming

Academic philosopher S Matthew Liao (NYU) and pals are coming to get you. They want to monkey with your genes, kill your unwanted, inject growth-stunting hormones into your womb, poison…

Culture

U Penn’s Latest Conn: Religious Schools Shouldn’t Be Accredited

Tell the truth: English Departments at our "top" universities are stuffed to the quad with (A) Progressives or (B) Conservatives? Anybody claiming (B) is either ignorant (I mean this politely)…

Statistics

Lovejoy’s New Attempt To Show We Are Doomed Does Not Convince

We last met Shaun Lovejoy when he claimed that mankind caused global temperatures to increase. At the 99.9% level, of course. He's now saying that the increase which wasn't observed…

Statistics

On The Kaya Identity

A reader asked about my take on the Kaya wars that are flaming at Anthony Watts's place. Here is the form of the Kaya Identity, which is to say, the…

Philosophy

Philosophic Issues in Cosmology: II. Relativistic Theories On Universe Origin—Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Bob Kurland is a retired, cranky, old physicist, and convert to Catholicism. He shows that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Last Movement

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. Previous post. Recall that the First Way has already been done.…

Fun

Readers: Pick Your Theme Song

It's summer and everybody's on vacation, except, it seems, Yours Truly. And whoever is left is over at Anthony's place fighting the Kaya wars. (My side? Take a look at…

Philosophy

Disbelief In Free Will Causes Disbelief In Free Will

Never was the West's wholesale flight from philosophy and a classic education more evident than in the title of this peer-reviewed paper: Prosocial Benefits of Feeling Free: Disbelief in Free…

JH on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 24, 2024
I have the impression that doctors do not want the responsibility of making decisions for you and your children. There…
JH on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 24, 2024
Mr. Briggs, how do you go from This bill would prohibit school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and…
BDavi52 on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 24, 2024
More than Scientism....more than our obsession with Expertology.....we have become a very timid, a very frightened people: scared to death…
Rudolph Harrier on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 24, 2024
I lost my last shred of respect for the medical industry back in the COVID days. Specifically, when I heard…
Cary D Cotterman on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 24, 2024
Back when I was a kid in the '60s, I remember my dad railing against the "doctor-gods" who had such…