2022 – Page 9 – William M. Briggs

All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings

Seventy-some researcher groups were given identical data, and asked to investigate an identical question. The groups did not communicate. Details are in the paper "Observing Many Researchers Using the Same…

Statistics

The Disparagement Of Epidemiology

I was having an argument with a friend who was on his way to a conference to point out the shortcomings and over-confidence of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). With EBM,…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On Immortality

Previous post. Forever is a long time. THAT MEN WILL RISE IMMORTAL 1 From this it is clear, also, that in the resurrection to come men will not so rise…

Culture

ESG Scores Are A Grift

It didn't take long for DIE and "climate change", slithering slimy sly beasties, to mate and produce an abomination in the eyes of science: the ESG Score. Environmental, Social, Governance…

Statistics

The Five Main Reasons Science Is Broken

The five main reasons Science is broken are: 1. Woke & DIE 2. The Expansion Team Effect & Money 3. The Expertocracy 4. Scientism & Scidolatry 5. Bad Philosophy A…

Culture Philosophy

Voting Causes Suspicion & Distrust

This is a modified excerpt from the Chapter on Voting in Everything You Believe Is Wrong. Why Do We Vote? Why do we vote in official elections? Or indeed elections…

Book review

On Scientism

Eric Voegelin, of "Don't immanentize the eschaton!" fame, penned a small monograph exploring his favorite subject, gnosticism: Science, Politics & Gnosticism. It is a slim book not as well organized…

Fun

PayPal To Maybe Begin Stealing Users’ Money For Spreading “Hate”, “Misinformation”: Donor Favor Asked

Below, I'll ask those donors who give through PayPal to switch to other services if they can. PayPal announced beginning on 3 November they will begin stealing money from user…

Pk on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
The Slippery Slope Fallacy is the assumption that you are starting from and good, stable landing when, instead, we are…
gareth on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 17, 2024
Thanks for doing this Briggs :-) Am (partially) following... (by which I mean that I'm getting some or most of…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 17, 2024
My writer friend describes a memorable lesson in statistics, given in her office where she was health editor at a…
Rightful Freedom on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
"That everyone ought to be equal is a moral idea which simply never occurred to anyone in antiquity; not even…
Cary D Cotterman on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
If DEI continues, it will be the destruction of everything humanity has achieved. You'd think that then the woke would…