March 2018 – Page 3 – William M. Briggs

Richard Dawkins’ Cannibalism Suggestion is Hard to Digest

Part of a high protein, low reason diet Don't accept any dinner invitations to Richard Dawkin's house. You might be asked to swallow more than his bizarre idea that God…

Book review Statistics

Uncertainty: The Soul of Models, Probability & Statistics. Chapter Abstracts

This post originally appeared right before the Uncertainty did. Now that we're 1.5 years out, it's time for a re-post. Buy it now, but it today, and buy it again…

Take Burnham’s Test To See If You’re A Progressive: <em>Suicide of the West</em> at 50

Book review Culture

Take Burnham’s Test To See If You’re A Progressive: Suicide of the West at 50

This classic column appeared in July 2015. Besides some editing, I would now change 'liberal' to 'progressive', which I have done in the title. I made no other change. See…

Statistics

Courting Climate Comedy

The descent of climate science into the surreal is about to take another comedic slide. A judge has ordered the State of California and a handful of oil companies to…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: All Things Are Ordered To God

Previous post. Some simple and, I hope, non-controversial (accepting that which came before) proofs that God is the ultimate end. That All Things Are Ordered to One End Who Is…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update XXV

Item Why LIM wants a ban on sibling marriage. (This article is in Norwegian, a language I do not speak; therefore, I used Google translate: use caution. I quote first…

Culture

Do Some Men Have A Uterus?

An apparatchik at a branch of our country's most prominent abortion factory last week tweeted "Some men have a uterus", and repeated the phrase eleven times. Now this was very…

Culture

Don’t Look To The Market To Protect Your True Rights

Anybody have a count of the corporations who flew the Sodomy Standard after Anthony Kennedy foisted his fantasies on the nation? How many minutes after the Supreme Court announced they…

Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many! – William M. Briggs on The Probability Of A Head In A Coin Flip Is 1, Not 1/2July 22, 2024
[…] impossibly perfect symmetry in the device/die and its workings. Did you watch the coin flip video? (Blog, Substack). Now…
Johnno on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 21, 2024
Interesting things being discussed here. I guess it's time to see where this goes... https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-pfizer-vp-michael-yeadon-explains-why-theres-no-evidence-for-the-existence-of-any-viruses/ https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/scientists-challenge-fundamental-precepts-of-virology-do-viruses-even-exist/
John Pate on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 21, 2024
The LLM people need to point out AI “hallucinations” are fully in line with the business of science and are…
hudbwu on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 20, 2024
All correct. Slavery had to be specially justified and strictly limited because nobody was inherently worthy of slavery. Therefore, all…
TFBW on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 20, 2024
If nothing else, this lecture is giving me pause to reconsider some of my presuppositions. I'm not too satisfied with…