Books
EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE IS WRONG Pre-published in December 2021, but officially in January 2022. Buy it. Errata page: submit typos and mistakes here, thank you. Free first chapter is here.…
Posted inStatistics
On The Severe (And Unrecognized) Limitations Of fMRI
So this 44-year-old Frenchman---let's call him Jacques---presented for a "mild left leg weakness". The leg bone being connected to the hip bone, etc., it was eventually discovered that Jacques's "skull…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Is Most Published Research Wrong? Yep. Here’s Why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q One of my students---my heart soars like a hawk!---sent me the video linked above. I'll assume you've watched it, as my comments make reference to it. About the dismal…
Posted inCulture
The True History Of College Sports Under Title IX
Here is the true history of college sports under the Federal Title IX mandate. Some events have not yet come to pass. In 1972, the Most Beneficent Government of the…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
On Ethical Socialism — Guest Post by Oswald Spengler
This excerpt is drawn from the 1965 Oxford University Press abridged edition of The Decline of the West, pages 185-187. Let us, once more, review Socialism (independently if the economic…
Posted inCulture
No Matter Who Wins, We’re Doomed — WMBriggs Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7T0XUOVS2g Download MP3. Note: This was written and recorded last Wednesday, before DickiLeaks et alia, but due to other events I had to delay posting it until today. The return…
Posted inStatistics
Computers Can Find Future Criminals? Why, Computers Can Do Anything!
There is a belief---a persistent and beguiling, yet false belief---that a formula exists that can predict anything. This formula will differ, it is thought, by the thing predicted, and it…
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Tyranny Of Liberalism Update
Item: LGBT Groups Seek to Entrench Agenda at the UN. The current session of the Human Rights Council opened this month, amid rumors that a group of South American countries,…
