2014 – Page 20 – William M. Briggs

Rename “Global Warming” Contest

Andrew Jackson (â€@yodacomplex) reminded me of the screwy history of the thing that was Global Warming. The phrase has undergone many revisions, examples of which are: Climate Change, Climate Cataclysm,…

Book review Philosophy Statistics

On Truly Random Numbers

Party trick for you. I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 4. Can you guess it? Two? Nope. Three? Nope. And not one or four either. I know what…

Culture

Your Big Government Update

Government Is Driving Inequality One thing my lefty friends are right about is the growing number of rich. The distributions of income and of wealth are moving ever farther from…

Philosophy

Philosophic Issues in Cosmology: I. Introduction—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: Contingency & Necessity

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. Previous post. The First Way is in the bag. And now…

Fun

All Men Are Mortal: A New, Award Eligible Mini Play

All Men Are Mortal SCENE: A windfarm in Absolute County, a dry patch of land out west. CAST OF CHARACTERS: BRANDON, a speechwriter for Earth Is It! RUSS, Sheriff of…

Statistics

The Letter The Lancet Wouldn’t Publish

Here's the title of a big new peer-reviewed paper in The Lancet: Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts within the…

Statistics

Live From Heartland Climate Conference, Wrap Up

Profound thanks I cannot say enough about the generosity of my benefactor, who not only footed the bill for my trip, but wined and dined and rummed our Secret Society…

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…