The Curious Engineer

William M. Briggs

2013–2016

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December 2016

  1. How’d We Do On Our 2016 Predictions?
  2. The Politicization Of Science Organizations: The Firing Of Michael Lubell
  3. Scott Adams’s Climate Science Challenge
  4. Some Statistics On What The Sexual Rebellion Wraught
  5. Russia As Salvation Of The West: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
  6. Mathematical Association of America Reviews Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics
  7. Merry Federally Recognized Holiday of 2016!
  8. “Media Powerhouses Don’t Quite Get Religion.”
  9. Stream: Who’s Better At Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls?
  10. Pascal’s Mugging Is Silly: Events Don’t “Have” Probabilities
  11. Russia As Salvation Of The West: Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
  12. Statistician to the Stars For Hire!
  13. Summary Against Modern Thought: The Intellect Is Not A Temperament
  14. I Get Complaints
  15. Stream: The UN Dislikes People: Here’s Their Plan For Fewer Of Them
  16. Muggings, Nuclear Devices, Probability & Decision
  17. Eastern Michigan To Install Zampolit In Every Classroom To Maintain Ideological Purity
  18. Don’t Use Statistical Models (When You Don’t Have To. Which Is Nearly Always)
  19. Science Asks: Why Are Angry Atheists Annoying?
  20. Summary Against Modern Thought: More On The Possible Intellect
  21. Vatican Analyzes The Difference Between Humans And Robots
  22. Scientific People Understand Reality Less, New Research Didn’t Study
  23. Seventy-Five Years After Pearl Harbor
  24. Do I Exist?(Does Russia) Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
  25. Stream: A New Kind Of Abortion
  26. Summary Against Modern Thought: Aristotle vs Averroes On The Intellect & Soul
  27. The Full Briggs?
  28. Stream: Pope Francis and President-Elect Trump Disagree on Global Warming Threat
  29. Tips From Esolen’s Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture

November 2016

  1. Stream: Bioethicists Want To Purge Christian Doctors
  2. Do I Exist? (Does Russia?) Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
  3. Reader Challenge: Find College WITHOUT Diversity Program
  4. Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Nature And Possible Intellect
  5. Asimov’s Cult Of Ignorance
  6. Chapter 10 of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics FREE for New Subscribers!
  7. In Which I’m Interviewed About Trump’s Victory & Free Speech
  8. Stream: Scientists Claim The Children Of Gay Couples Turn Out Better
  9. Uncertainty Reviewed Again: It is such a good book, and I recommend it without reservation
  10. Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Intellect Is Not A Separate Substance
  11. Paedophilia In High Places
  12. Musk’s Matrix Is Malodorous
  13. Diversity Kills: Air Force Edition
  14. The Demon In Democracy by Legutko, Part I: History — WMBriggs Podcast
  15. Uncertainty Interviewed By Brett Stevens at Amerika
  16. Riots Are Not Protests
  17. Summary Against Modern Thought: Man Has But One Soul
  18. Complete List Of All Moral & Ethical Questions Answered By Science
  19. Question Of The Moment: What Can Trump Do To Shore Up The Right?
  20. Stream: Why The Polls Stunk Up The Place
  21. Trump Wins! How To Cope With Your Grief
  22. There Is No Such Thing As The GOP — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
  23. Plato, Bloom & Wan Baochang On The Destructive Power Of Bad Music
  24. The Elites Are Coming For Us Online
  25. Stream: Spirit Cooking, Simulated Cannibalism & The Election: More Satanism
  26. Stream: Won’t Somebody Please Rescue The Poor Tradinistas Slaving Away As Baristas?
  27. On The Cubs’ & Trump’s Victories, Nate Silver’s Predictions & All That
  28. No Matter Who Wins, We’re Doomed — WMBriggs Podcast
  29. What Russia Wants, Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

October 2016

  1. A Deep Philosophical Account Of Probability
  2. Media Lying With Polls? Is The Pope…Er…Ah, Never Mind
  3. Why Is It Okay To Eat Pigs And Not Dogs? Science Does Not Have The Answer
  4. One World Without Borders Would Lead To Tyranny
  5. Stream: Satanism, Child Torture, Mind Control — What Is On Hollywood’s Mind?
  6. Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Fem’nists
  7. What Russia Wants, Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
  8. Statistical Models CANNOT Show Cause, But EVERYBODY Thinks They Can. Hence the Replication CRISIS
  9. Summary Against Modern Thought: Plato On The Soul
  10. Academic freedom? Gone—And Good Riddance
  11. We Interrupt Our Regular Post—To Bring You Trump Roasting Hillary At The Al Smith Dinner
  12. Debate Analysis & Election Predictions
  13. Nature: The Scientists Who Support Trump — I’m Quoted
  14. Open Thread
  15. Global Thermonuclear War: A Small Price To Pay To Stop Trump
  16. Summary Against Modern Thought: How Our Intellects & Brains Interact
  17. God’s Gift To Molecular Biology: The Hydrogen Bond — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  18. Follow-up to Our New Satanic Moment: Fashion Edition
  19. Miracles And Knowledge Of Cause
  20. Modern Artists Are Evil Or Borderline Bedlamites
  21. E-Holiday!
  22. Trump As Speed Bump (And Debate Notes)
  23. Summary Against Modern Thought: Souls Survive The Body: Plan Accordingly
  24. Stream: EPA Issues 57-State Climate Warning!
  25. Is Homosexuality A Disability?
  26. The Culture is Wrong, and The Church is Right: Zmirak’s New Book Reviewed
  27. Prince Metternich Predicts Our Future From 1834 & Nails It
  28. The New Religion Of Dataism (Another Version Of Man-As-God)
  29. ‘Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics’ Reviewed Again
  30. Summary Against Modern Thought: Substance & Being vs. Matter & Form
  31. Stream: Trump, Religious Liberty and the Snippy Elevator Lady

September 2016

  1. Russia’s Rise: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
  2. Stream: ‘Three-Parent’ Babies Can’t Cure Disease
  3. Breitbart: A Reply to the 375 Concerned Members of the National Academy of Sciences
  4. Debate Open Thread: Trump Wins On Points In Two-Against-One Bout
  5. Stream: Are Polls Underestimating Trump’s True Support?
  6. Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellects Are Changeable
  7. Women ‘Genetically Programmed To Have Affairs’?
  8. Hypernumeracy
  9. Why Does The Left Always Win?
  10. Researchers Discover Parents Label Animals By Binary Sex At Zoos
  11. Russia’s Rise: Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
  12. Pope Says Using Paper & Plastic A Sin
  13. Summary Against Modern Thought: Differences In Being and What Is In Intellectual Substances
  14. On Ethical Socialism — Guest Post by Oswald Spengler
  15. Stream: xkcd’s Global Warming Time Series Mistakes
  16. Comments on The Flight 93 Election. Let’s Roll
  17. Uncertainty and the World: An interview with W. M. Briggs at Ordeal of Consciousness
  18. On Habits Good & Bad
  19. New York Times Is Looking For A Climate Change Editor. That’s Me!
  20. Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellectual Substances & Subsistent Forms
  21. Bad Science Used to Block Americans’ Access to Life-Saving Technology
  22. Stream: Did Ohio’s New Abortion Law Cause An Increase In Adverse Events?
  23. Just What Is Signal And What Is Noise?
  24. The Great Spiritual Accompaniment
  25. Why Trump? — Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
  26. Stream: President Obama Once Again Imagines He Will Save The World
  27. Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellectual Substances Are Immaterial
  28. Internet Guidelines From The Rule Of St Benedict — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  29. Carbon Fibre Masculinity, Homosociality, Gendered Surfaces, & Idiot Academics
  30. Why Americans Left Christianity And Became Nones

August 2016

  1. Gonorrhea, Wee P-values, and Tax Increases
  2. On The Severe (And Unrecognized) Limitations Of fMRI
  3. Uncertainty Reviewed In The New Criterion
  4. Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Intellects Are Not Material
  5. Reader Query & Assist Request: Health Data In India
  6. Islam vs. The West vs. Russia — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
  7. Stream: Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them
  8. Showdown At The National Academy of Sciences Corral
  9. The True History Of College Sports Under Title IX
  10. Stream: Our New Satanic Moment
  11. Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellect & Free Will
  12. Satanism & Religious Freedom
  13. Essence Is Of The Essence
  14. Falsifiability Is Not That Useful
  15. Behind The Russian Madness — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
  16. Is Most Published Research Wrong? Yep. Here’s Why
  17. The Difference Between Essential And Empirical Models
  18. Summary Against Modern Thought: There Is Free Will
  19. The City Of Sodom Possibly Identified (On Evidence)
  20. Stream: AP’s LGBT ‘Rights’ Survey: Stacked, Biased, Bogus
  21. There Is No Scientific Method
  22. How To Make An Atheist Cry
  23. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Utopia, Rationalia
  24. Equality Motivates The Refugee Crisis
  25. Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellectual Creatures & The Universe’s Perfection
  26. The Dangers Of Sam Harris’s Anti-Free Will View
  27. Preface to Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics
  28. Islam Asleep, Islam Awake — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
  29. “I Believe In Science” — Which Is Not Believing In Much
  30. Pope: If I Speak Of Islamic Violence, I Must Speak Of Catholic Violence

July 2016

  1. Summary Against Modern Thought: The First Cause Of The Distinction Of Things
  2. Uncertainty Gifs
  3. The Hierarchy Of Models: From Causal (Best) To Statistical (Worst)
  4. “All Religions Want Peace”: The Pope, Propaganda & The Expected Lie
  5. Computers Can Find Future Criminals? Why, Computers Can Do Anything!
  6. Jumping Jackers Organize Demonstration For Peace
  7. Uncertainty (#1 New Release in Statistics) Book Page — Here Are The Details. Update!
  8. Summary Against Modern Thought: The Diversity Of Merits & Demerits
  9. Expectations Of The Majority
  10. Stream: Homicide Rates, Black vs. White, Sex, Guns & Government
  11. Was The Attempted Turkish Coup A False Flag Or Otherwise Allowed To Happen? Guest Post by Ianto Watt
  12. Publishing & Equality Are Killing Science
  13. Stream: University Of Cincinnati To Require Diversity Oath
  14. Uncertainty: Foreword by Steven Goldberg
  15. Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels—or Aliens—Did Not Make The World
  16. Stream: Government Lab Has Been Faking Data for Years
  17. Shocking New Research: Hunger Motivates Eating
  18. The Great Day Is Here! Uncertainty Meets The World
  19. The Imposing-Their-Beliefs Fallacy
  20. The Apes Do It So It’s Fine For Us Fallacy
  21. The So’s-Your-Old-Man Fallacy
  22. The Wrong-Side-Of-History Fallacy
  23. Ad Hominem, My Sweet
  24. The Genetic Fallacy: He Works For An Oil Company!
  25. Cluster Failure: Biggest ‘I Told You So’ Yet. fMRI Stinks
  26. Tyranny Of Liberalism Update
  27. Independence Day: Death To The Tyranny Of Liberalism!
  28. Summary Against Modern Thought: First Causes In The Distinction Of Things
  29. Stream: Under Ash Carter, the Military is Now Looking for a Few Good Men, Women or Whatever
  30. Can A Scientist Believe In Miracles? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland

June 2016

  1. Another Drake Equation Paper Shows Why Drake Always Fails
  2. You—Yes, You—Are Doing Probability & Statistics Wrong — Podcast
  3. The Gambler’s Fallacy Proves Classical Statistics (Frequentist & Bayes) Fails
  4. Pride In Objectively Disordered Sexual Desires?
  5. Summary Against Modern Thought: Good And Evil Aren’t Wholly Opposites
  6. Brexit: A Decision By A Democracy
  7. Britain Free. France, Texas Next? Brexit Open Thread
  8. The End Of Class
  9. Number 1 Book In Epistemology & In Logic! Get It While It’s Hot!
  10. University Drops Math, May Add Diversity Requirement
  11. Infinity & Probability: A Return To The Finite
  12. Summary Against Modern Thought: Matter Doesn’t Always Matter
  13. Facebook All Video: The Disappearance Of Words
  14. Real Philosophy Is Science — Guest Post by Old David
  15. Are We Special? New Thoughts about the Anthropic Principle — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  16. Teaching: No Post, No Podcast, But One Book
  17. The I-Have-Big-Muscles Fallacy
  18. Orlando Shooting — Open Thread
  19. Summary Against Modern Thought: Chance Is Not A Cause
  20. Melody May Be A Learned Response?
  21. Consider The Hand — Guest Post by the Blonde Blombshell
  22. Fermi’s Paradox & Gaian Bottlenecks
  23. Trust Me. I’m A Scientist — WMBriggs Podcast
  24. A Brief Explanation Of Occam’s Razor
  25. Stream: California Tried To Make Global Warming Skepticism Illegal
  26. Summary Against Modern Thought: Arguments Against The World Being Eternal
  27. Rampant Harassment by Atheists Expected At Reason Rally 2016
  28. Animals Aren’t Men, Even If Government Says So
  29. The Bayesian Metaphor Can Do More Harm Than Good: Update
  30. Multiverses, Infinities, Probability & The Deadly Sin of Reification — WMBriggs Podcast

May 2016

  1. Stream: Pretend to Believe In Free Will Or Else You Will Make Bad Choices
  2. Church of Scotland Goes For Gmarriage (Government-Defined Marriage)
  3. Summary Against Modern Thought: Failed Arguments For The Eternity Of The World II
  4. On The Foreseeable Rise Of ‘White Supremacists’
  5. Why Is Economics Plagued By Math?
  6. Stream: Doctors Killing Patients And Harvesting Their Organs
  7. This Week In Doom — WMBriggs Podcast 18 May 2016
  8. Book Update — Uncertainty & Breaking The Law Of Averages
  9. Quantum Mechanics, Potentiality, Ontology, Epistemology, & Probability
  10. Summary Against Modern Thought: Failed Arguments For The Eternity Of The World I
  11. Think You Can Simulate A Brain? Think Again
  12. Brits Psychologists Cry “BS!” Over Research Practices. Or, Die P-Value, Die Die Die
  13. Watching Porn Makes People More Religious? The Severe Limitations of Quantifying Behavior
  14. This Week In Doom — WMBriggs Podcast
  15. Stream: The Transgender Logic of Gender Fluidity Justifies Absurdities
  16. More On The Deadly Sin Of Reification
  17. Summary Against Modern Thought: Creatures Didn’t Necessarily Always Exist
  18. How To Be Poor — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
  19. The Culture Wars Are Over: Reality Routed, Lunatics Victorious
  20. Evolutionary Psychologists Claim Religion Is Explained By Energy Use. Here’s Why They’re Wrong
  21. Lucky You! All About Luck — WMBriggs Podcast
  22. A New Kind Of University: An Open Discussion
  23. Reality Made Illegal: Man Ordered To Treat Daughter As Boy
  24. Summary Against Modern Thought: Some Things Exist Necessarily
  25. Do People Really Believe In Chance & The Deadly Sin of Reification?
  26. The Silliness With Bathroom Laws — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
  27. Stream: Choose to Read This Article About Research Saying You Don’t Have Free Will
  28. Are We Smart Enough To Know What Intelligence Is? — WMBriggs Podcast
  29. Climate Hustle: In Which Yours Truly Becomes A Movie Star. Updates From Last Night
  30. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Didn’t Have To Create

April 2016

  1. Worlds Without End: The Conformal Cyclic Cosmology Of Roger Penrose — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  2. On The Rise Of The “Nones”
  3. The Deadly Sin Of Reification Strikes Again!
  4. Let’s Polka! Or How Polka Can Save The World — WMBriggs Podcast
  5. Here Comes The Gene-Editing Research In Human Embryos
  6. Ritual Sacrifice Promoted Evolution Of Stratified Societies: A Statistical Fallacy
  7. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Can Do Everything Not Logically Impossible
  8. Norway’s Official Church Surrenders Christianity
  9. Why Do So Many Want Men In Ladies Rooms? Bonus: Did You Know It’s Earth Awareness Day?
  10. Stream: Why Science Is Broken & How To Fix It
  11. WMBriggs Podcast 20 Apr 2016 — The End Of All History
  12. Scientism Of The First Kind: Science Shows Laptops Distract Students
  13. New & Improved Way To Support Your Favorite Blog!
  14. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Unable To Make Square Circles
  15. Future Of AM Radio
  16. Stream: Why Letting Government Control Money Is Killing our Economy
  17. Coincidences Don’t Have Odds, Chances, Or Probabilities
  18. WMBriggs.com Podcast 13 April 2016 — Equality!
  19. Climate Witch Hunt Now Official: Think Tank Subpoenaed
  20. The Future of Catholicism in America: Thomistic Institute Symposium
  21. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Acts Through His Wisdom
  22. Atheists More Religiously Tolerant Than Christians: It’s Science!
  23. The Future Of Freely Using Your Own Money, a.k.a. Capitalism
  24. Masters Predictions & (Some) Statistics — Podcast Bonus
  25. WMBriggs.com Podcast 6 April 2016 — It’s The End Of The World: Again
  26. Stream: Should Women Be Allowed In Combat? A Debate
  27. Attorneys General Embrace Lysenkosim With Gusto: Why Now?
  28. Summary Against Modern Thought: God’s Acts Aren’t Necessary
  29. What Are Good Times For A Live Broadcast?
  30. I Self Identify As A Yak

March 2016

  1. Stream: The Climate Surprise: Why CO2 is Good for the Earth
  2. WMBriggs.com Podcast, 30 Mar 16 — No Deal In Georgia, New Criterion Climate Conference
  3. A Return To Podcasts—Live! Starting Tomorrow. Here Are The Details.
  4. Answering A Global Warming True Believer
  5. Just In Time For Easter, The Annual Skeptical Article Denying Jesus Existed
  6. Complete List Of Conclusive Disproofs Of Jesus’ Resurrection
  7. Christians: Boycott Disney, Marvel, The NFL
  8. There Is No Such Thing As An Average Man
  9. Stream: Brussels Attack And The Ironies Of Muslim Assimilation
  10. Gender Ideology Harms Children, Is Child Abuse Say Pediatricians
  11. The Ethics Of Precrime
  12. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is All Mighty
  13. Can A Catholic In Good Conscience Vote For Trump?
  14. Police To Use Algorithms To Predict Which Cops Will Go Rogue
  15. Third Way Of Probability & Statistics Gets Comments
  16. Paper Finds Pattern In Primes: What About Randomness & Chance?
  17. More Election Violence!
  18. Stream: Why The Election Won’t Matter Much: We’re Doomed
  19. Summary Against Modern Thought: Only God Can Create
  20. Reader Questions About Men’s Fashion
  21. It from bit: What about God? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  22. Canada Slipping Fast Back Into Paganism: “Doctors” Ordered To Kill
  23. Feminist Physics Begets Feminist Glaciology
  24. American Statistical Association Statement On Statistical Significance & P-values, With My Comments
  25. Stream: #Creatorgate. Scientists Say ‘The Creator’ Designed The Human Hand, Biologists Go Ape.
  26. Summary Against Modern Thought: No Body Can Create
  27. Religious Leaders File Brief To Support Abortion
  28. Direct Democracy Is Not To Be Desired
  29. First Annual Political Correctness Day: Date TBA
  30. What’s The Worst Moment in US History?
  31. Is Truth And Evidence In Medicine Fascist? Update: Yes.

February 2016

  1. Stream: Political Scientists Didn’t See Trump Coming. What Went Wrong?
  2. Summary Against Modern Thought: Creation Is Not A Succession
  3. Health Insurance Isn’t Health Care
  4. Science Shows How Not To Get Killed By A Cow
  5. In Support of Unpaid Work
  6. Saying “He’s A No-Good, Pandering Populist” In A Democracy Is Funny
  7. Arrgh
  8. Physician Oaths, Then & Now
  9. Summary Against Modern Thought: Creation Is Not Change From Something To Something
  10. Angry Ovulating Women, Women Angry At Ovulation
  11. On Coincidence And Fortune: Why So Many One-Eyed Generals?
  12. Stream: Dice Games Prove Evolution Because Humans Believed In Punitive Gods?
  13. Grammy Awards: Triumph Of The Vulgar
  14. What Happens If You Take Away Women’s Birth Control?
  15. Scalia Dissents: Some Favorites
  16. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Brought Things Into Being Out Of Nothing II
  17. Science Confirms Astrology! Plus, Machine Learning, Big Data, And Causes
  18. Gravitational Waves And Discovering Cause
  19. Regression Can’t Prove Discrimination
  20. Still Trust Government & The News?
  21. On Twitter’s Shadow Banning
  22. Obama’s Climate Challenge. Do Business Leaders Dare To Take It?
  23. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Brought Things Into Being Out Of Nothing
  24. New Pope Video: Ain’t The Planet Great?
  25. Infinity, (Physical) Parameters, Fine Tuning, & Probability
  26. On The Freedom Of Religion And Satanism
  27. Stream: Olympics Might Allow Men Pretending to be Women to Compete as Women
  28. Iowa Caucus Open Discussion. Update: Text Fixed, Those Coin Tosses Discussed
  29. On Virtue & Holiness Signalling

January 2016

  1. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is The Cause Of All Being
  2. The Corrosive Effect Of Democracy, Far East Edition
  3. Analysis Of A Sermon From The Secular Scientism Priest Neil deGrasse Tyson
  4. Is Using FanDuel Or DraftKings Gambling? What Is A “Game Of Chance”?
  5. What Is A Game Of Chance?
  6. The Four Errors in Mann et al’s “The Likelihood of Recent Record Warmth”
  7. Scientists Hint That Water Perhaps Might Possibly Be Good For Kids
  8. Summary Against Modern Thought: God And His Relation To Effects
  9. The Establishment And The Alt-Right
  10. Gallup On Satisfaction With Gay “Rights”, The Remnant, & The Episcopalian Grounding
  11. Uncertainty: Book Update
  12. Poland, God Bless It, Sends New York Times Into Conniption Fits Over ‘Migrants’
  13. More Proof Standards Are Lowered Under #Equality: FBI Man Wants To Be Treated Like Girl
  14. Stream: Designer Babies To Be Super Intelligent?
  15. Summary Against Modern Thought: God’s Action, Power & Substance
  16. The Future Of Russia. Guest Post by Vladimir Putin
  17. When They Come For Your Cash, It Will Be For Your Own Good
  18. Stream: Obama Warns: Global Warming Deniers Now Face the Disapproval of … Business Leaders!
  19. When Philosophy Lost Its Way Discussion
  20. What Could Feminist Physics Possibly Mean?
  21. Predictions Relating To Racist German Women Taunting Innocent Migrant Men
  22. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is The Cause Of All Being
  23. Did Neanderthals Have Souls? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  24. Firearm Homicides Dropping: All The Latest Stats
  25. Second Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award!
  26. Stream: Pro Gun Is Pro Life
  27. The Real Anti-Science Crowd
  28. “Man Stupid, Protect Earth.” New Year Message From Koko The Talking Gorilla Answered By Larry The Loquacious Lobster. Update!
  29. Summary Against Modern Thought: The Different Goals Of Philosophy and Theology
  30. Stream: Will 2016 Be the Year We Approach The Great and Terrible Singularity?
  31. Predictions For 2016—Register Yours Today!

2015 346

December 2015

  1. How’d We Do On Our 2015 Predictions?
  2. Open Discussion: Universities Are Dead, But Still Haven’t Dropped
  3. Under-determination, Quus, And Why It’s Cause That Counts (And With A Taste Of Grue)
  4. Gettier Problems & Epistemic Luck Are Distractions And No Problem
  5. Summary Against Modern Thought: What Scientific Errors Tell Us Of God
  6. This Week In Doom: Reality Now Illegal
  7. Merry Federally Recognized Holiday Of December 25th That Shall Remain Nameless So As Not To Offend
  8. Nobody Expects The Roman Climate Inquisition—Guest Post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
  9. Social Justice Warriors At Oberlin Attack Non-Diversity Of Sandwiches
  10. Theories Don’t Have Probabilities: Or, Is The Multiverse Real?
  11. Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Happiness
  12. This Week In Doom: The Demands And Ravages Of Equality
  13. Animals Are Killing Animals And We’re Doing Nothing To Stop It
  14. There Are Only Two Errors: Idealism & Materialism
  15. Stream: Trump’s—No, Wait—The Republican Debate
  16. Comment On “Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse”
  17. Stream: December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21
  18. Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Happiness
  19. The Theology of Science-fiction: Some SF “Gospels”—guest post by Bob Kurland
  20. FiveThirtyEight Weighs In With Some Odd Affirmative Action Statistics
  21. I Self-Identify As The Yak King
  22. Odds That a Panel Would ‘Randomly’ Be All Men?
  23. Stream: Climate Circus, Climate Clowns at #COP21
  24. Memo to GOP Presidential Hopefuls (Who Aren’t Named Trump). Guest Post by The BB
  25. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Eternal
  26. Stream—This Week In Doom: Women In Combat Edition
  27. Gift Suggestions
  28. The Real Reason For The Paris Global Warming Talks #COP21

November 2015

  1. Stream: Most Idiotic Aspects of the Paris Global Warming Conference
  2. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Hates Nothing
  3. The Pope Is Wrong About Global Warming
  4. Stream: There’s Big Money in Global Warming Alarmism
  5. Best Equivocation Joke: Open Thread
  6. Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach
  7. The Crybaby Fallacy (Which Atheists Often Use)
  8. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Cannot Will Evil
  9. This Week In Doom: Meat Eating & The Sins Of Sexual Normalcy
  10. Keenan’s $100-Grand Climate Challenge & Randomness
  11. Nothing From Nothing & Infinity
  12. It Is Irrational to Believe in Science
  13. Stop Teaching Frequentism; More On That “Altruism” Study; Etc.
  14. Stream: Threat Of Global Warming Causes Terrorism
  15. Summary Against Modern Thought: Moral Virtues & God
  16. This Week In Doom: Paris Open Thread (And Mizzou Tie In?)
  17. Armed Students Take Over Cornell University
  18. Stream: The Joys of Divesting from Reality (And Not Just Oil)
  19. When Colleges Divest, Who Wins? Hint: Not The Colleges
  20. Universities Like Missouri & Yale? Nuke ’em From Orbit. It’s The Only Way To Be Sure.
  21. Here’s Why That Study Claiming Religious Kids Are Less Altruistic Stinks. Updates
  22. Summary Against Modern Thought: How Virtues Can Be Ascribed To God
  23. This Week In Doom: Pew Research Proves Global Warming Propaganda Works
  24. The Pope’s Favorite Novel: Lord of the World
  25. Hubris & Models: Global Warming Economic Production Edition
  26. Stream: People Who Don’t Need People
  27. Mainstreaming Pedophilia
  28. Having Trouble Deciding Between Brands Of Satanism? Breitbart & Salon Can Help!
  29. Summary Against Modern Thought: That God Is Love, And What That Means

October 2015

  1. This Week In Doom: Justice Kennedy Says Bureaucrats Should Act Like Nazis?
  2. The Catholic Church: Midwife Of Science. Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  3. Stream: Bishops Demand World-Wide Decarbonization.
  4. Data Do Not Have Means: Or, The Deadly Sin of Reification Strikes Again!
  5. The Crisis Of Conservative Catholicism: Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture at First Things
  6. Insurance Companies Raising Prices Because Of Exaggerated Global Warming Threat by Insurance Insider ‘Barton Keyes’
  7. Summary Against Modern Thought: The Passions of the Appetite & God
  8. Stream: Academics Increasingly See Christianity As A Sickness To Be ‘Treated’
  9. A Wink And A Nod At #Synod15
  10. The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove
  11. Tide Gauge Locations And Sea Level Rise, Some Statistical Concerns
  12. It’s World Statistics Day! Death To P-Values, Hypothesis Tests, And False Ascriptions Of Cause! #StatsDay15
  13. Is It Moral To Use Embryonic Stem Cells In Cancer Therapy?
  14. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Has Free Will
  15. This Week In Doom: Death Education & Blind Science
  16. Stream: Scientists Claim Zapping Brains With Magnets Can Treat Belief In God
  17. Why Statistics Can’t Discover Cause, And Bad Priors
  18. On The Supposed Newly Discovered “Gay Genes.” Or, The Importance Of Model Skill
  19. Enjoy Coffee? You Could Be A Psychopath. Or, Time For A Two-Year Moratorium Of Questionnaire Science
  20. Summary Against Modern Thought: God’s Will And Contingency
  21. This Week In Doom: SJW’s Openly Deploying F-Bombs
  22. How Many Deaths Does Reading @Voxdotcom Cause?
  23. There Is No Such Thing As A 1000-Year Flood
  24. Never Adopt The Enemy’s Language
  25. Atheists Claim There Is No Such Thing As Gravity—Or Shakespeare!
  26. The Battle Over Sexuality In The Catholic Church Begins
  27. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Cannot Will The Impossible
  28. Newly Discovered Ocean Cooling Process Implies Climate Stabler Than We Knew
  29. Stream: Eugenics Will Cure Global Warming
  30. Hear Briggs Speak Free on Why You’re Doing Statistics Wrong

September 2015

  1. The National Embarrassment Which Is Bill Nye
  2. Who’s Supporting The UN’s So-Called Sustainable Development Plan? The #BigPush
  3. Open Thread: Effect Of Pope’s Visit?
  4. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Wills His Being But Not Necessarily You
  5. Stream: UN’s Vision for Lifting Up the World’s Poor Differs Sharply from the Pope’s
  6. The Pope’s Bargain. Accept It—If You Dare
  7. Scientists Pretend They Can Answer Why Some Are More Religious
  8. Some Like It Hot: The Hottest Year Ever Inside A Global Warming “Pause”? The Stream. Updates
  9. Stay tuned…post coming soon at The Stream
  10. The Theology of Water—Is Design Intelligent? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  11. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Wills The Future
  12. This Week In Doom: Rejecting Sex With HIV+ Is Now Discrimination
  13. Failed Climate Scientists Call For RICO Investigation To Stop Criticisms, And Non-Scientist Claims Scientists Will Cause Next Genocide
  14. Who Wants Viewpoint Diversity In The Academy?
  15. Chesterton On Polls
  16. The Philosophy Of Uncertainty: An Introduction. Complete Preface. Update
  17. Stream: So-Called Homophobia Now Being Labeled a ‘Mental Disease’
  18. Summary Against Modern Thought: God’s Will Is Not Chance
  19. This Week In Doom: A Mighty, Doom-Laden Seven Days
  20. Lawrence Krauss Wants All Scientists To Be Militant Atheists
  21. Stream: Sins of The Synod: Behind The Scenes at The Synod on The Family; Pentin’s New Book
  22. Rhode Island Mandates HPV Vaccine, Tells Parents, “We’re The Government And Can Do What We Like”
  23. The Expansion Team Syndrome: SAT Scores & Science
  24. The Unknown Fallacy: Inflicting Your Views On Me
  25. Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Will
  26. The Week In Doom: If You Like Your Religion, You Can Keep Your Religion
  27. No Christians In Public Life? Kentucky Clerk Jailed For Refusing To Issue Gmarriage Licenses.
  28. Stream: Global Warming Update: Obama Seeks to Still the Glaciers of Alaska
  29. Frequenstism Is Entirely Ad Hoc; And So Are Priors. Use The Third Way Instead
  30. A Prayer For The Earth: Answering The Pope’s Call. A One Act Mini-Play.

August 2015

  1. Universities Crank Up The Insanity: Bad Grades For Saying ‘Illegal Alien,’ ‘Male,’ ‘Female’
  2. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Has Will
  3. University of Tennessee Tells Staff & Students To Stop Using ‘He’ & ‘She’
  4. There Is No Mercy Without Crime
  5. Dumbest & Most Frustrating Modern Invention Contest Winner Announced!
  6. Turns Out, Cops & Donuts Do Mix
  7. Social Justice Warriors! Marvel Announces New Movie At #HugoAwards
  8. Lake Michigan Vacation Post
  9. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Knows Evil
  10. This Week In Doom: Whole Babies For Sale, But Not At Chick-fil-A. Why Not?
  11. Rare Win For Forces Of Sanity: Or, PM2.5 Isn’t As Scary As We’ve Been Told
  12. Minds Have Become So Rotted By Global Warming They Listen To Naomi Klein
  13. Trenberth Is Wrong About Global Warming: The PDO Is An Effect, Not A Cause
  14. Stream: No, Half of British Youths Aren’t “Bisexual”
  15. Is Young Fatherhood Causally Related To Midlife Mortality? Wee P-values Say Yes!
  16. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Knows Infinite Things
  17. The Banality of Evil Redux: Do Planned Parenthood Officials Sin? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  18. Briggs Is Available To Speak. Update
  19. Having A Kid Worse Than Divorce Or Death? Wee P-values Say Yes
  20. The Third Way Of Probability & Statistics: Beyond Testing and Estimation To Importance, Relevance, and Skill. New Paper
  21. Contest! Dumbest & Most Frustrating Modern Invention
  22. Video: The Crisis Of Evidence, Or, Why Probability & Statistics Cannot Discover Cause
  23. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Can Read Your Mind
  24. The Only Metric That Matters
  25. Legalized Suicide Leads To Government Deciding Who Lives, Who Dies. Update: Predictions Verified
  26. Stream: What’s True and What’s False in Obama’s Latest Global Warming Claims
  27. Keeping It Simple: The Value Of An Irreducibly Simple Climate Model. New Paper
  28. Which Statistics Grad School If You’re Sick Of Hocus-Pocus P-values?
  29. Probability & Statistics Cannot Prove Cause
  30. Summary Against Modern Thought: Can God Know The Future?
  31. This Week In Doom: Utopia Or Death (Baseball’s and Yours)

July 2015

  1. Remnant: Archbishop Cupich Gives Up The Ghost
  2. Writer Says Discovery Of Extraterrestrial Life Would Be Bad News For God. God Says Nope
  3. The Crisis Of Evidence: Why Probability And Statistics Cannot Discover Cause. New Paper
  4. Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science
  5. Is God is a Mathematician? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  6. Bread From Something Or Nothing? Or, What’s A Miracle?
  7. This Week In Doom: Crunchy Yummy Babies And A New Circle Of Hell
  8. The Remnant: Ever Wonder Why Gmarriage Is Only Legal in Post Christian Nations?
  9. The Perfectibility of Man: Suicide of the West at 50
  10. More Reasons Not To Use The Precautionary Principle: Update
  11. Stream: Attack Of The Black Swans From Outer Space!
  12. There’s More Than Physics: A Review Of Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos . Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  13. Summary Against Modern Thought: Can God Know Things That Aren’t?
  14. Climatology Isn’t The Only Thing Killing Science
  15. Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality at The Federalist
  16. Planned Parenthood Kills And Sells Victims’ Body Parts. Evil Doc Says Yum
  17. An Exchange with Newsday About Pope Francis
  18. Donald Trump Considered. Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
  19. Summary Against Modern Thought: Can God Know Everything?
  20. This Week In Doom. Vampires Fear Being Judged, Climate Lunatics Stick Heads In Sand—For Real
  21. Laudato Si: “The Curate’s Egg.” The Not So Excellent Parts. Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  22. The Gmarriage Dialogue
  23. The Gaia Hypothesis Is Either Trivial And Useless Or False And Ridiculous
  24. Idols With Wee P Values. Statistics As Ritual
  25. Stream: Pope Francis’s Dr. Strangelove Craves One World Government
  26. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Pure Truth
  27. If The Constitution Is A Living Document, It Can Die
  28. Laudato Si: “The Curate’s Egg.” The Excellent Parts I. Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  29. Notes On Our War. Never Give Up! Never Surrender! More Updates
  30. Cheating With Polls Down Under. Guest Post by Stephen Dawson

June 2015

  1. The Need To Believe In “The Solution” To Global Warming
  2. 128 Million Bigots (Including Your Mother): Gmarriage By The Numbers. Updates
  3. Stream: Why Gmarriage Is Worse Than You Think
  4. Gmarriage Open Thread
  5. What Causes Democracies To Incline Towards Pantheism
  6. Corrigan Brothers’ Statistics Song. Finally Released!
  7. Drudge, Rush, Gaia, The Pope, Radio, Etc.
  8. The Stream: The Scientific Pantheist Who Advises Pope Francis
  9. Randomness And The “Null” Hypothesis
  10. How Government Beneficence Hurts The Poor
  11. Laudato Si’: How To Live?
  12. The Stream: Laudato Si on the Science of Global Warming
  13. #LaudatoSi Thoughts
  14. Crisis: Leaked Laudato Lamented
  15. Pope’s Encyclical Leaked: Relevant Climate Portion
  16. What Is Cause Like?
  17. What The Republicans Didn’t Learn In Middle School. Guest Post by Mrs X
  18. Heartland Climate Conference #ICCC10: Day 3. True Believers
  19. Heartland Climate Conference #ICCC10: Day 2. Lousy Models, Wrong Theory
  20. Heartland Climate Conference: Day 1. Everybody Gets Time Series Wrong
  21. I Am In Awe Of What Passes For Science
  22. Free Range Adults
  23. Democracy And The Inevitable Erosion Of Standards: Racist Tests Edition
  24. George Gilder’s Information Theory Of Money
  25. How Many Lousy Predictions Until Error Is Admitted?
  26. Heartland Conference, Statistics Classes, Statistics Books, & Statistical Cups
  27. Why Global Warming Models Are Hot And Bothered
  28. Bill Nye Says, “Let’s Talk” About Global Warming. Okay, Let’s.
  29. Help This Reader Out: Best Science Material For Kids?
  30. The I-Must-Be-Right-Because-I-Can’t-Think-Of-Another-Reason Fallacy

May 2015

  1. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Truth
  2. This Week In Doom: Bad Science Edition
  3. Equality Always Wins
  4. Progressive Catholic Groups Giddy Over Pope’s Upcoming Global Warming Encyclical
  5. Lancet Editor: Half Of Science Is Wrong. An Underestimate?
  6. Junk Science and Cheap Moralism on the Tiber: The Church And Global Warming
  7. What Went Wrong In Ireland, And What Will Go Wrong Here
  8. Something To Cheer The Irish (And The Rest Of Us)
  9. The Week In Doom: Nervous Sheep & Intolerant Irish
  10. Gay-conversion Therapy Bans And The Origin Of Homosexual
  11. Ireland’s Same-Sex Gmarriage Vote: Or, The Snakes Return?
  12. Are Wars And Violence Decreasing? Taleb’s New Paper Reviewed
  13. Democracy And The Global Warming Consensus—And That New Arizona Survey
  14. Vote For Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan For President: It’s The Intelligent Thing To Do
  15. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Knows All At Same Instant
  16. This Week In Doom: Grade Deflation
  17. Encyclical Delayed, Possibly Downgraded To Lesser Form?
  18. The New Pew Religion Survey Isn’t What You Think (Probably)
  19. The Pontifical Academy’s Sustainablity Conference Podcast
  20. What Does “Sustainability” Really Mean?
  21. Hypothesis Testing Relies On The Fallacy Of False Dichotomy
  22. Summary Against Modern Thought: More On God’s Omniscience
  23. Arguing About Climate Is Largely Pointless
  24. British Elections Open Thread. The Return of Nationalism?
  25. The Purposeful Lowering Of Physical Standards: More Consequences Of Egalitarianism
  26. Kids Raised By Parents Creates Unfair Advantages, Inequality: A Consequence Of Egalitarianism
  27. Will Climate Change Kill One-Sixth Of All Species?
  28. Columbia University Concludes All Western Civilization Triggering
  29. Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Omniscience
  30. “Are You Nice?”
  31. This Week In Doom: A Riotously Good Time

April 2015

  1. What Does Losing Tax Exempt Status Of Churches Mean? Or, The SSM Takedown. Updates
  2. Crisis: Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm (And Temperature Fiddling)
  3. Catholic Climate Change Conference: Consensus Confusion. Updates
  4. Why Progressives Believe Global Warming
  5. How Come The Leftward, Lurching Drift? Riot Update
  6. Sustaining Envy—Guest Post by Jim Fedako
  7. Bad Science Of The Year Nominee: Global Warming To Cause Bad Music
  8. Grandmaster: Men Better At Chess. Or, Data And The Underdetermination Of Theory
  9. Willie Soon & I Are On An Internet Radio Show Today Celebrating Earth Day: Update
  10. Hey, Triggered College Kiddies: Come To The Ultimate Safe Space!
  11. Think Global Warming’s Bad? Wait’ll You Meet Sustainability
  12. Summary Against Modern Thought: Proving God is Omniscient
  13. Vatican To Have One-Day “Climate Change” Summit. Why Wasn’t I Invited?
  14. Discrimination Is Everywhere!
  15. After Gay Marriage…Then What? Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
  16. The Logic Puzzle That Is “Stumping The Internet.” Update: Now With Solution
  17. Space’s 10 Mistakes People Make When Arguing Science
  18. On Remaining Quiet In Time Of War
  19. Summary Against Modern Thought: God’s Understanding Is His Essence
  20. The Miracles-Don’t-Exist-So-Miracles-Don’t-Exist Argument
  21. Masters Statistics & (Some) Predictions
  22. P-Value Hacking Is Finally Being Noticed
  23. Discuss
  24. What Evidence Would Persuade You That Man-Made Climate Change Is Real?
  25. Al Sharpton: Republicans Has Climate Change
  26. Summary Against Modern Thought: God’s Intelligence Is His Essence
  27. This Week In Doom: All Things Gay & Equality
  28. Status Of Christianity (And Pizza Parlours)
  29. Global Warming Hypocrisy: Or, Science Is Politics
  30. Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act & The End Of Democracy

March 2015

  1. The Falls-Disproportionately-On-The-Poor Fallacy
  2. Bill Nye The Science Guy Confuses Scientific Uncertainty Versus Doubt
  3. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Intelligent
  4. This Week In Doom (Indiana’s RFRA Too!)
  5. Probability’s Empirical Bias
  6. Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism
  7. Global Warming Is Anti-Science
  8. A Probability Non-Paradox
  9. Science Officially Runs Out Of Things To Study
  10. Be A Man
  11. New Paper: Climate Consensus and ‘Misinformation’
  12. Build Your Own Embryo DNA Kits, Because Justice
  13. Calculating Markov Chain Stationary Distributions Is Immoral?
  14. St Paddy’s Day Parade Report
  15. Answering A Critic On Sampling Variability
  16. I Made “Climate Denial MVP”!
  17. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Infinite
  18. Unraveling The NYT’s “Unraveling the Church Ban on Gay Sex”
  19. Mainstream Global Warming Reporters Are Biased, Unteachable, Lazy, & Unethical
  20. Ought Wrongs To Be Righted? Not Always
  21. When Should The Church Meddle In Science? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  22. Bad Arguments Against The Death Penalty: Update
  23. Race Norming At Universities And The Doctrine Of Unintended Consequences
  24. Sampling Variability Is A Screwy, Misleading Concept
  25. You’re A LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM-aphobe!
  26. Journalist Bias For Sale Vs. Academic Freedom: More On The Soon Pseudo-Controversy
  27. Can Microbes Manipulate Minds? Guest Post by Petro Starokadomskyy
  28. Der Spiegel Asks About Global-Warming-Causes-Syrian-Civil-War Paper
  29. Journal Bans Wee P-values—And Confidence Intervals! Break Out The Champagne!
  30. Coming Clean On My Global Warming Funding
  31. Summary Against Modern Thought: That God Is One II

February 2015

  1. Government Witch Hunt Of Scientists Begins: DOJ To Join In? Update! Inhofe Fights Back
  2. For The Love Of Models: A Global Warming Allegory
  3. The Quality Of Speeches And Education Has Diminished. Egalitarianism Demands It
  4. Today’s Posts Are At Breitbart
  5. Government First Encouraged, Now Wants To Reduce Screen Time For Kids—Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
  6. Goon Squad Fails To Distract Public From Fact That Climate Models Stink: Update 3
  7. Response To Trenberth Over “Why Models Run Hot”
  8. Reporting On So-Called Climate Reporters: Update 4
  9. Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: VI
  10. Give Up Carbon For Lent?
  11. Beware, Bloggers, The Government Is Coming. Update
  12. How Good Is That Model? Scoring Rules For Forecasts: Part III
  13. Summary Against Modern Thought: That God Is One I
  14. This Partly Explains Why Education Is Such A Mess
  15. How Good Is That Model? Scoring Rules For Forecasts: Part II: Update
  16. Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: V
  17. What Might Pope Francis’s Upcoming Encyclical Look Like?
  18. How Good Is That Model? Scoring Rules For Forecasts: Part I
  19. Temperature Grids, Interpolation, And Over-Certainty
  20. Summary Against Modern Thought: The Goodness Of God
  21. First Computers, Radios & The Death Of Radio Shack
  22. Question Of The Week: Will Religions Try to Convert Superintelligent AI? No
  23. Natural Variations In Weather DO NOT Explain The ‘Pause’: Update, With Letter to Nature
  24. The Vaccine Discussion: Update
  25. “The Church Believes In Science.” And That Global Warming Is Akin To Slavery?
  26. Pew’s Public and Scientists’ Views on Science and Society Survey
  27. The Fourth Crisis Of The Church & Pope Francis

January 2015

  1. Government Funding Is A Conflict Of Interest: Cowardly Calls For Climate Scientist’s Firing. Update
  2. Predictions For 2015—Re-Register Yours Today!
  3. Another Puzzled Atheist Wonders Why Religion Persists
  4. Resolved: Statisticians To Cease Using “Independence”, Change To “Irrelevance”
  5. Climate Paper Causes Chaos, Angst, Anger, Apoplexy! (Hacking)
  6. I Was Hacked
  7. That “1-in-27 Million Chance That Earth’s Record Hot Streak Is Natural” Is Preposterous
  8. More On The Pope And Global Warming
  9. Men Who Post ‘Selfies’ Are Psychopathic, Narcissistic. Science Says So!
  10. NEW PAPER: Why Models Run Hot: Results From An Irreducibly Simple Climate Model
  11. Do Sunspots Shorten Lives By 5.2 years?
  12. On Computers ‘Learning’
  13. Summary Against Modern Thought: No Evil In God
  14. The Blocked By @MichaelEMann Club: Register Here
  15. First Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award!
  16. Naomi Oreskes Plays Dumb On Statistics And Climate Change
  17. Real Climate Temperature “Trend” Article Gets It Wrong (Like So Many Do)
  18. Summary Against Modern Thought: That God Is Goodness Itself
  19. On The Uselessness Of Lie Detector (And Medical) Screenings, And The Ames Spy Case

2014 343

December 2014

  1. How’d We Do On Our 2014 Predictions?
  2. Pope Francis And Out-Of-Control Deadly Eschatological Global Warming
  3. Monty Hall And This Video Prove Probability Is Measure Of Truth
  4. Summary Against Modern Thought: That God Is Good
  5. Manly Things, Northern Michigan Edition
  6. Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: IV
  7. Improper Language About Priors
  8. I Also Declare The Bayesian vs. Frequentist Debate Over For Data Scientists
  9. NYC Protesters: ‘What Do We Want? Dead Cops!’ What They’ll Get Is Something Else
  10. Summary Against Modern Thought: Nothing Is Predicated Univocally Of God & Other Things
  11. The Reimaginings Of Exodus And Noah Inspires Moviemakers—And You!
  12. Podcast: Peer Review, Bob & Ray Do Statistics, Academic Calls For Killing Of (Post-Birth) Babies
  13. Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: III
  14. On The Attribution Of A Single Event To Climate Change
  15. Columbia Law School Kiddies ‘Traumatized’, Exams Postponed: Update Harvard Joins
  16. The Philosophy Of Rock Paper Scissors
  17. Summary Against Modern Thought: Terms Which Can Be Predicated Of God
  18. Infinite Surprise And Impossible Events
  19. Uncertainty Is An Impossible Sell
  20. Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: II
  21. The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels Reviewed
  22. Can We Predict The Unpredictable?
  23. Climate Change Causing Short Peruvians!

November 2014

  1. Summary Against Modern Thought: Of The Divine Perfection
  2. This Is Why Jesus Will Separate The Sheep From The Goats
  3. What To Do On Black Friday
  4. The 2014 CS Lewis Lecture By RR Reno: The Piety of Pedagogy. Guest Report by The Blonde Bombshell
  5. Ferguson Open Discussion
  6. Don’t Use Statistics Unless You Have To
  7. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not A Body
  8. On That New “Gay Gene” Study
  9. Upcoming Probability & Statistics Talks! The Climate, Over-Certainty & More!
  10. Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: I
  11. The Day I Made The Front Page!
  12. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not The Universe
  13. Predicting Doom—Guest Post by Thomas Galli
  14. Nonpolitical Images Evoke Neural Predictors Of Political Ideology?
  15. Nothing Is Distributed: So-Called Random Variables Do Not Follow Distributions
  16. Thanks, Fellow Veterans
  17. Pregnant, And No Civil Rights?
  18. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not In A Genus
  19. BBC: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? BBC: Because Something
  20. An Introduction To Uncertainty: Probability, Statistics, and Modeling of All Kinds
  21. Sex With 21 (Not 20) Women Lowers Risk Of Prostate Cancer. It’s Science!
  22. On Nate Silver’s Predictions: Which Side Of The Probability Equation Are We On?
  23. Shaving Cream & Subscriptions
  24. Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity (And Catholicism)
  25. Update On Gun Crime: Downward Bound. Vote Accordingly

October 2014

  1. Jerry Coyne Has A Go At Pope Francis. Shoots Self In Foot
  2. Doc Asks Fellows To Keep Statistics Simple
  3. If We Are What We Sexually Desire, How About These Curious People?
  4. The Mysticism Of Simulations: Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Sampling, And Their Alternatives
  5. The Preponderance Of Evidence Criterion Is Absurd
  6. Summary Against Modern Thought: There Is No Accident In God
  7. Discrimination Found By Statistics!
  8. We Don’t Know Anything
  9. Paper Claims Surprisingly Strong Link Between Climate Change And Violence. Nonsense.
  10. The Problem Of Grue Isn’t; Or, A Gruesome Non-Paradox About Induction
  11. Strangers In A Strange Land: Archbishop Charles J. Chaput 2014 Erasmus Lecture
  12. Please Don’t Smooth Your (Social Media) Data!
  13. Summary Against Modern Thought: God ‘s Existence And Essence Are The Same
  14. Humanae Vitae & The Sexual Revolution: Theories And Predictions
  15. Global Warming’s Shark Jumping Moment
  16. That Curious Synod Relatio
  17. Truth, Knowledge, Belief, & Gettier Problems
  18. Don’t Say “Natural Variability”
  19. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is His Own Essence
  20. A Common, Unfortunate, Avoidable, Devastating Error In Statistics
  21. The Decline & Fall Of Radical Catholicism; Or, What The Synod Will Have Wrought
  22. The Coming Cancer Panic
  23. Don’t Say “Hiatus.”
  24. That Conservatives Smell Different Than Progressives Study Stinks
  25. Statistics Good, Bad & Ugly
  26. Summary Against Modern Thought: Periodic Review
  27. The Strange Case Of Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Or, Jail Climate Deniers!
  28. Stephen Hawking Thinks Too Much Of Us; More
  29. The True Meaning Of Statistical Models
  30. The IPCC’s And McKitrick’s “Hiatus” Time Series Models

September 2014

  1. The Rise Of Bayes
  2. A Wandering Mind Is An Unhappy Mind?
  3. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not A Body. Part III
  4. On Being Certain There’s No Certainty
  5. William M Briggs, “Statistician To The Stars”, Now A Thought Leader
  6. Climate Hustle, Readers Write
  7. Richard Carrier’s Argument To Show God’s Existence Unlikely Is Invalid And Unsound
  8. People’s Climate March: The Face Of True Belief #PeoplesClimate
  9. People’s Climate March: D-Day
  10. People’s Climate March Prep: Your Help Requested
  11. 160 Eco Prize Winners Take Out New York Times Ad, Beg Money: UN Climate Summit. Update: Fake Winners
  12. Autism And Stem-Cell Derived Vaccines: Deisher’s New Paper
  13. The Inevitable Red Skins Name Controversy Post
  14. That Innovation Is Negatively Correlated With Religion Study
  15. The Science-Is-Self-Correcting Fallacy
  16. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not A Body. Part II
  17. Scenes From A Mid-Sized University
  18. Mark Zuckerberg Dresses Like A Bum
  19. On The Truth And Knowing Why
  20. More On Randomness
  21. Up North At The Lake, With No Phone, Computer, TV
  22. Comprehensive List Of Catholic Dogmas Refuted By Science
  23. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not A Body. Update
  24. Yet Another Author Claims Statistically Significant Temperature Change. 99.999%!
  25. Movie Review: Calvary. Guest Post By The Blonde Bombshell
  26. New York City’s St Patrick’s Day Parade Caves: Update
  27. Exposure To Fracking Reduces Low-Birth-Weight Babies
  28. Dan Farber, Berkeley Lawyer, Confused Climate Clinger
  29. Philosophic Issues in Cosmology VIII: Foundational Propositions—Guest Post by Bob Kurland

August 2014

  1. Summary Against Modern Thought: There Is Nothing In God Against Nature
  2. Calvin & Hobbes’s Atheist Days?
  3. Winner Announced In What Should Artists Do About Global Warming Contest
  4. We Know The Climate Is Warming Because It Isn’t
  5. Scared Scientists! Climate Terror!
  6. The Global Warming Non-Expert Expert
  7. Philosophic Issues in Cosmology VII: Is there a Multiverse?–Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  8. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not Made Of Parts
  9. How Do You Care For The Environment? #BecauseICare
  10. The Unexamined Scientific Life
  11. Latest Threat To Global Warming? In Vitro Fertilization
  12. Government To Issue Baby Licenses
  13. What Should Artists Do About Global Warming Contest
  14. Philosophic Issues in Cosmology VI: Anthropic Coincidences—Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  15. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not Made Of Matter
  16. Ask A Scientific Ethicist: Baby Making, Auto Mishap, ISIS Attacks
  17. It Makes No Sense To Say You’re More Likely To Die Of Bee Sting Than Shark Bite
  18. Decline Of Participation In Religious Rituals With Improved Sanitation
  19. Comments On Dawid’s Prequential Probability
  20. Explanation Vs Prediction
  21. Philosophic Issues in Cosmology V: What Measurements Tell Us—Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  22. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Has No Passive Potentiality
  23. Gibbon (And O’Brian) On Too Many Lawyers
  24. Missing Global Warming Close To A Solution?
  25. There Is No Difference Between A Forecast, A Scenario, or A Projection
  26. What I Have Learned From Global Warming: Contest Winner Essays 2. Plus Secret Bonus!
  27. Judgments About Fact And Fiction By Confused Researchers
  28. Philosophic Issues in Cosmology IV: Creatio Ex Nihilo—Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  29. Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Eternal
  30. Best Drinking Songs?
  31. 10 Misunderstood Scientific Ideas

July 2014

  1. Climate Change Summer Camp!
  2. What I Have Learned From Global Warming: Contest Winner Essays
  3. Making Gay Okay Reviewed. Part I, The Acts
  4. Philosophic Issues in Cosmology III: Mathematical Metaphysics—Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  5. Summary Against Modern Thought: What’s God Like?
  6. Winners Announced In The Rename “Global Warming” Contest!
  7. Another Academic Calls For Shorter People To Battle Global Warming
  8. U Penn’s Latest Conn: Religious Schools Shouldn’t Be Accredited
  9. Lovejoy’s New Attempt To Show We Are Doomed Does Not Convince
  10. On The Kaya Identity
  11. Philosophic Issues in Cosmology: II. Relativistic Theories On Universe Origin—Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  12. Summary Against Modern Thought: The Last Movement
  13. Readers: Pick Your Theme Song
  14. Disbelief In Free Will Causes Disbelief In Free Will
  15. Rename “Global Warming” Contest
  16. On Truly Random Numbers
  17. Your Big Government Update
  18. Philosophic Issues in Cosmology: I. Introduction—Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  19. Summary Against Modern Thought: Contingency & Necessity
  20. All Men Are Mortal: A New, Award Eligible Mini Play
  21. The Letter The Lancet Wouldn’t Publish
  22. Live From Heartland Climate Conference, Wrap Up
  23. Live From Heartland Climate Conference, Day Two
  24. Evolution Under Fixed Constraints; Or, Why Random Changes Don’t Cut It
  25. Summary Against Modern Thought: Non-existence Of Infinite Causal Chains
  26. Don’t Go To Confession; Humpty-Dumptying The English Language; More
  27. Science? What’s That?
  28. On Your Duty To Dress Well
  29. Companies Should NOT Be Forced To Fund Employees’ Birth Control. SCOTUS Update

June 2014

  1. Do You Believe In Global Warming Because Of The Seriousness Of The Charges?
  2. Summary Against Modern Thought: Potency, Actuality, & Movement
  3. Class Report: How Not To Teach Statistics
  4. From Paganism To Christianity To Deism To Malleism
  5. Casual Sex Is Good for You, Says New Biased Study
  6. Probabilities Aren’t Decisions
  7. The Biggest Error In Regression
  8. Free Will The Result Of ‘Background Noise’?
  9. Final Proof Global Warming Purely Political
  10. The Applicability Of Experiments
  11. The Cult Of The Parameter!
  12. Teaching Comes First. But Only If You Bring In Grants. And Publish
  13. The Deadly Sin Of Reification! Day Three
  14. Tautology Tautology: Day Two Teaching
  15. I Was Wrong About Axioms: Day One Teaching
  16. Summary Against Modern Thought: First Steps In The Scientific Proof Of God
  17. The Joy Of Unknowns In World Cup; Updates
  18. On What’s Behind The Notes In Music
  19. Democrats Received 42% More Donations Than Republicans, Even Including Koch Brothers
  20. Into The Wild Blue Yonder
  21. Educators Disease Reaching Epidemic Levels, Experts
  22. Secret Science Reform Act of 2014
  23. Summary Against Modern Thought: How Through Reason We’ll Prove God’s Existence
  24. I’ll Kill You Off On This Blog For $10
  25. If You Disagree You Are Full Of Hate, You Bigot
  26. Nine Counter-Arguments To Frequentism
  27. Female-Named Hurricanes Deadlier Than Males. Implicit Sexism Kills!
  28. Is Laverne Cox Still A Man? Or, The Coming Transgender Wars
  29. Summary Against Modern Thought: Faith, Proof, & The A Priori

May 2014

  1. Killing Children Legally In Belgium
  2. There Is No Such Thing As Intrinsic Probability
  3. Failed Counterexamples To The Principle Of Indifference
  4. Can A Disgusting Smell Turn You Conservative And Against Gay “Marriage”?
  5. IPCC Intensifies Search For Missing Global Warming
  6. Is This Sign Hate Speech?
  7. Summary Against Modern Thought: Things Which Block Truth
  8. Foreclosures Causing Suicides?
  9. #IAmOutraged!
  10. Regression Isn’t What You Think
  11. The Moral Case Against Designer Babies
  12. What That Spurious Correlation Website Tells Us About Statistics
  13. Climate Wars At The University of Delaware: Guest Post by Jan H. Blits
  14. Summary Against Modern Thought: What We Can Know And What We Cannot
  15. The Consensus Fallacy
  16. Ask A Scientific Ethicist: Boy Who Thinks He’s A Boy & More
  17. Godzilla’s Changing Height: A Statistical Analysis
  18. Frequentists Are Closet Bayesians: Confidence Interval Edition
  19. William M. Briggs Sez: Keep That Impressive Middle Initial
  20. Researchers: Calling Girls Fat Makes Them Fat
  21. Summary Against Modern Thought: The Office Of A Wise Man
  22. Health Care And The Candy Store Called Socialism
  23. Well? What Do You Think? Or, New & Improved!
  24. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Scientism
  25. Ask A Scientific Ethicist: Estranged Mother, Thieving Boss, & More
  26. Time Series And Causality: Global Warming Example
  27. Bad Dates
  28. Decadence Data: Or, A Doomed Demos Dances
  29. Time Series Aren’t Easy: Tornado Deaths Example
  30. Physical Probability Doesn’t Exist

April 2014

  1. True Reason: Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism Reviewed
  2. Trigger Warnings And The Feminismization Of America
  3. Global Warming Update: Titanic Sunk! Contest Update: Other Historical Events. Update: Not Me!
  4. Animals Suing People, People Suing Animals: Lawyers Rejoice
  5. Punishment Of Pre-Thoughtcrime On The Rise: You Could Be Next
  6. A New Possible Solution Of Fermi’s Paradox
  7. Correlation Implies Causation
  8. Free Will Cannot Be An Illusion
  9. Sexual Immorality, Low Birth Rates, And Religion
  10. Preface: The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics, An Introduction
  11. Science Is Only A Matter Of Culture, A Different Way Of Knowing?
  12. To Coyne A Review: Did Jerry Coyne Really Read David Bentley Hart’s Book?
  13. The Absurdity Of Reducing The Income Gap
  14. Is God’s Existence Confirmed By Prophecy Via Probability?
  15. On UFOs, Salt Intake, And Heart Disease
  16. Government Per Capita Spending: Up, Up, And Away! Or, Happy Tax Day!
  17. The Hot Hand: Statistical Fluke Or Genuine Article?
  18. Truth: Logic of Probability and Statistics
  19. The Somebody-Might-Get-Hurt! Fallacy
  20. How Teachers Learn To Identify Weapons From Non-Weapons
  21. Lawyer Argues We Should Ignore Inconvenient Laws
  22. Science for the State; Or, Lysenko Lives
  23. Boys’ Toys V. Girls’ Toys: Researchers Still Trying To Prove They’re The Same
  24. Alchemy Hour
  25. Let’s Find And Fire Those Who Support Same-Sex “Marriage”
  26. E-Lynching The Politically Incorrect: Mozilla Edition
  27. The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics (Book. Sort Of.)
  28. Are We Hard-Wired for Faith? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  29. Finally! Global Warming, The Musical

March 2014

  1. My Genes Made Me Vote For Obama: Predisposed Reviewed
  2. Another Fool Calls For My Arrest: Or, Adam Weinstein Slips A Nut
  3. The Coming Schism
  4. Party’s Over, Baby: The Twilight of Abundance Reviewed
  5. Their Science Or Ours
  6. On Nate Silver’s Republicans-Take-The-Senate Prediction
  7. Evidence Does Not Support Low Consumption Of Total Saturated Fats
  8. HANDY Not So Dandy: NASA-Funded Mathematical Model Of Doom
  9. Pick Your Lotto Numbers With a Greater Chance to Win? Paper From Brazil
  10. Global Warming Hanger-On Says Ends Justify The Means
  11. Go Read This
  12. The One-True-Religion Fallacy. (It’s Not What You Think)
  13. Conspiracy Theorists Abound
  14. Guinness, Heineken, & Sam Adams Now Political Statements, Not Beer
  15. It’s Time To Lynch Those Who Deny Climate Skepticism
  16. It Was Right To Dumb Down The SAT
  17. The Probability Of A Bottle Broken Into N Pieces When Struck By A Hammer
  18. If I Must Sell, You Must Buy
  19. Betting Begins On Next Official “Orientation” Letter
  20. The Epistemology Of Miracles: Fulton J. Sheen Edition, Part II
  21. The Epistemology Of Miracles: Fulton J. Sheen Edition, Part I
  22. You Are Who You Think You Are: Hart’s The Experience of God , Part III
  23. WMBriggs.com Now A Violence Site
  24. Death panels? Sure. The State? No Way
  25. How The IPCC Buried Evidence Showing Good News About Global Warming
  26. What Are The Chances Of That?
  27. Bake Your Own Damn Cake
  28. You Can’t Get Something From Nothing: The Experience of God , Part II
  29. Best Picture Oscar Winner: Model Prediction

February 2014

  1. Why You Should Care About The Philosophy Of Probability & Statistics
  2. Briggs And The Owl: A Refutation Of Atheism
  3. Which God Are You Rejecting? David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God , Part I
  4. Update On The On-line Probability & Statistics Course. Comments Wanted
  5. Prosecute Global Warming Heretics. Update 2: Kill, Nuremberg Them, Too!
  6. The Mysticism Of Randomness: Philosophy of Probability & Statistics Video Series
  7. From Latin & Greek To Remedial English
  8. The “Right” To This, That, And The Other Thing
  9. Surprise! A Professional Organization Comes Out Against Euthanasia
  10. Researchers Claim Gays Who Face Prejudice Live Shorter Lives
  11. Scientists: Moral Traits Considered Most Essential Part Of Identity
  12. What Statistics Really Is: Part Last
  13. Probability Is Logic: Philosophy of Probability & Statistics Video Series
  14. On Intelligence & Religiosity
  15. Researchers Invent Exciting New Disease: Poverty Blindness
  16. Scientists Discover Men Enjoy Looking At Women’s Breasts.
  17. What Statistics Really Is: Part II
  18. What Statistics Really Is: Paradox Digression
  19. What Statistics Really Is: Part I
  20. Huffington Post Gives Helpful ‘To Do’ List To Pope Francis
  21. Secularists Solemnize? Abortion Sacred?
  22. One Reporter’s #Sochi Horror Story
  23. Statistics Talk: Chances Are You’re Doing It Wrong
  24. What Scientific Idea Is Ready For Retirement? Hypothesis Tests
  25. Quantum Mechanics & Free Will: Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  26. Malthus’ Proof That Welfare Leads To Increasing Need For Welfare
  27. About That Lefties-Drink-More-Than-Conservatives Study
  28. Will Someone Please Laugh At These Jokes?

January 2014

  1. Coming Out Christian: Guest Post by Hut Evenest
  2. Voting (And Wisdom Of The Crowds)
  3. Wisdom Of The Crowds (And Voting)
  4. What If Ed Snowden Benefits The State? Guest Post by Jim Fedako
  5. Statistically Speaking: Why You Are Too Sure
  6. Atheism And Its Problem Of Evil
  7. Marbles!
  8. The New Obama-care Arithmetic: Guest Post by Kip Hansen
  9. What Regression Really Is: Part III
  10. What Regression Really Is: Part II
  11. What Regression Really Is: Part I
  12. Does 1+2+3+… Really Equal -1/12?
  13. He Did What?
  14. Books Most People Lie About Reading
  15. Pity the Poor Children
  16. Hilarious “Proofs” Of God’s Non-Existence & Existence
  17. Brain-Scan Lie Detectors Don’t Work
  18. Racism Eats Telomeres. An Exciting New Paper-Generating Research Area
  19. Most Damning Indictment On Primary Education You’ll Ever See
  20. The Slow Death Of Perversion
  21. National Academy Of Sciences Mistakes Politics For Science. Again
  22. Call For American Studies Association To Expand Boycott To United States
  23. On The Role Of Genetics In Politics
  24. Do Dogs Poop In Alignment With The Earth’s Magnetic Field?
  25. The Closing Of The Scientific Mind
  26. On Defeating The NSA: Privacy In A Time Of Government Overreach
  27. #ICanChangeThePast2, Or, Tweeting Time Travel
  28. New Poll Says 40% Don’t Believe In Evolution. So What.
  29. The Protocols Of The Elders Of Big Oil
  30. Rats. Post Didn’t Show
  31. Predictions 2014—Register Yours Today!

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December 2013

  1. How’d We Do On Our 2013 Predictions?
  2. I Have What You Would Call A Theoretical Basis: Gender As A Construct
  3. The University In 2024—Guest Post by Agnes Larson
  4. Update On Woman In Combat
  5. Herd Immunity And Christianity
  6. Wave Of Apoplexy About To Be Unleashed
  7. Merry Christmas And Thanks For Another Year
  8. Plato On Democracy’s End Game
  9. Probability And Shot Groupings
  10. Reddit Bans Dissent
  11. The Endangered Species Act & Counterfactual Arguments
  12. Putting The Squeeze On Bob Newhart, Duck Dynasty
  13. Causation And Correlation
  14. Belgian “Doctors” To Kill Kids They Think They Can’t Cure
  15. Entry For The Most Pompous Statement Of Scientism
  16. Professor Confesses Why She Inflates Grades
  17. Exposure to Fast Food Impedes Happiness, Researchers
  18. Global Warming Creating Anxious Fish
  19. Lord, Save Us From Impact Factors
  20. What Is And What We Know Of It, Probabilistically Speaking
  21. Is It Okay To Force A Baker To Sell Cakes In Violation Of His Religious Conscience?
  22. Reader Survey
  23. Author Says Machines Will Take Over The World
  24. The Top Five Mistakes In Marketing Statistics
  25. On Who Regulates Medicine
  26. Could A Virgin Birth Ever Really Happen?
  27. Scientism, Legalism and Precaution: Regulating Nutrition and Health Claims in Europe
  28. Twenty Tips For Interpreting Scientific Claims
  29. Friedrich A. Hayek’s Lecture “The Pretense of Knowledge”

November 2013

  1. On Dressing Well
  2. What Random Means In Random Number Generation
  3. Winner Announced in What Do You Call A Believer In Scientism Contest
  4. A Survey Of The Perceptions Of Climate Scientists 2013: No Consensus
  5. North Korea’s Brilliant Climate Change Strategy
  6. Ask Dr Fashion: Should I Throw Away My Jeans?
  7. The Converted Statistician
  8. Every Family Has Children Until They Have A Boy: Probability Stumper
  9. Scientists Claim Homosexual Men Have Different Faces
  10. What Do You Call Believer in Scientism? Contest
  11. Observational Versus Controlled Trials
  12. Dawkins Gets It Wrong Again: Similar Is Not The Same
  13. We’re 88% Through The International Year Of Statistics
  14. Nonstatisticians Often Screw Up Statistics
  15. Johnson’s Revised Standards For Statistical Evidence
  16. Briggs Exposes His Better Side
  17. Racist Researchers, The Racists, Accuse Gun Owners Of Racism, You Racist
  18. A Veteran’s Day Tale
  19. Thomas Aquinas & Philosophical Realism
  20. Obamacare Predictions: How’d We Do So Far?
  21. Beneficent Government To Ban Another Thing (Trans Fats)
  22. Students Eschewing Humanities In Favor Of Science
  23. The Boston Globe’s Failed Assassination Of Willie Soon
  24. What Happens When Research Yields Unpopular Findings
  25. Women With Large Posteriors Live Longer? Or Is Medical Reporting Nonsense?
  26. The Supraterranean War On Sanity: Scientists Versus Civilians
  27. Snot-nosed Brown University Brats Throw Temper Tantrum
  28. Robert Heinlein And The Distinction Between Scientist vs Academician

October 2013

  1. Daily Links & Comments
  2. Why Falsifiability, Though Flawed, Is Alluring: Part II Climate Model Example
  3. Sharknadoes To Increase Due To Global Warming
  4. Marines To Allow Females In Ground Combat
  5. Daily Links & Comments
  6. Daily Links & Comments
  7. Why Falsifiability, Though Flawed, Is Alluring: Part I
  8. Daily Links & Comments
  9. Blinks As Lie Detectors
  10. Daily Links & Comments
  11. How To Properly Handle Proxy Time Series Reconstructions
  12. Daily Liks & Comments
  13. Rick Santorum Says Devil Pwons Hollywood
  14. Daily Links & Comments
  15. Scientific Forecasts, Not Scenarios, For Climate Policy—Guest Post by J. Scott Armstrong
  16. (Most) Everything Wrong With Time Series
  17. We Gave Them The Willies
  18. The Most Depressing Picture Of The Year
  19. Vitamin D And Cancer
  20. Tea Partiers Know As Much Science As Enlightened Lefties?
  21. The Night Fred Astaire Shot Up Broadway
  22. Anti-Human Leader: Every Woman, Everywhere, Could Have Contraception
  23. Blasphemy Rights Day Twitter Contest Winners
  24. Pascal & Barzun On Scientism
  25. Update On Sexuality Wars
  26. Topographical Data Analysis Next Great Hope
  27. Logical Probability Data Analysis, Measurement Error Example
  28. Colonoscopies Set To Music
  29. We Do Not Discriminate On The Basis Of…Contest! Winner Declared!
  30. End Of The World Set For 2047. Plan Accordingly
  31. What Do Means Mean?
  32. The Alternative To P-Values
  33. My Complete And Utter Lack Of Business Sense
  34. Everything Wrong With P-Values Under One Roof
  35. On The Intersection Of Scientist And Politicians—Guest Post by An Engineer
  36. On The Evidence From Experiments: Part IV
  37. Confirmation Bias Happens To The Other Guy
  38. Use The Wrong P-value, Go To Jail: Not A Joke: Updated With Amicus Brief

September 2013

  1. On The Evidence From Experiments: Part III
  2. The Case of the Missing Global Warming: A 17th Precinct Mini Mystery
  3. Summary Of Statistical Evidence Against Global Warming
  4. On The Number 49
  5. How The 95% IPCC Certainty Falls To The Ground
  6. Armed EPA Ignores Subpoena, Conducts Secret Science, More!
  7. On The Evidence From Experiments: Part II
  8. The Political Science Of The IPCC
  9. On The Evidence From Experiments: Part I
  10. Pope Francis’s Mega Interview: Music & Literature Recommendations
  11. On-Line Courses Not Faring Well—As Expected
  12. Abortion Safety: Doctors V. Nurses & Physician Assistants & Midwives—Part II
  13. How To Mislead With P-values: Logistic Regression Example
  14. Bacteria Found In Holy Water
  15. Econometric Drinking Games, WSJ Edition: Update
  16. Most Probabilities Aren’t Quantifiable
  17. The Consensus In Philosophy
  18. Scrap Statistics, Begin Anew
  19. Selling Fear Is A Risky Business: Part Last
  20. Selling Fear Is A Risky Business: Part II
  21. Selling Fear Is A Risky—And Profitable—Business: Part I
  22. Global Warming To Cause New Crisis. What Will It Be?
  23. Aesthetics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part X
  24. Analysing Perceptions Of Cute Videos Of Threatened Species
  25. fMRI Discovers Freud, Distribution Plushies Lurking In Brain
  26. Sam Harris’s Moral Landscape Challenge: Win Big Money!
  27. 20% Of Scientists To Jump Ship Because Of Sequestration
  28. The 0.3% “Consensus”—Guest Post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
  29. Monday Mail
  30. Switzerland Has Contest For New National Anthem Which Removes God

August 2013

  1. Abortion Safety: Doctors V. Nurses & Physician Assistants & Midwives—Part I
  2. Some Hollywood Money Statistics
  3. Preferred Female Body Proportions Among Child-Free Men
  4. Visualization Of Biblical Cross References And Supposed Contradictions
  5. On The College Bubble—Update
  6. Genre Fiction—Guest Post by D.B.
  7. Loome Theological Booksellers
  8. Too Damn Sure: The Epidemiologist Fallacy
  9. The Pearl of Great Price–Pascal’s Wager Revisited: Guest Post by Bob Kurland
  10. On The Battlements Of Culture
  11. Bioethicist Calls Unborn “Innocent Aggressors”
  12. Richelieu And Bacon On Education
  13. Baseball To Toss Tradition, Allow Replays
  14. Was The UEFA Champions League Draw Rigged?—Bayesian Analysis by Henk Tijms
  15. Engaging, Witty, Funny, Brilliant, And Most Humble Speaker Seeks Gigs
  16. That IQ And Atheism Study
  17. “Probably Fine” Isn’t A Number
  18. Plastic Surgery Might Make You Uglier
  19. Briggs Makes Der Spiegel: Violence “Linked”, Etc.
  20. Belloc On The Limited Intelligence Of Scientists
  21. Our Brains Are Not Us: Review of Brainwashed
  22. The Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again. EPA, CARB, And Air Pollution
  23. What’s Happening Between Russia And The Church?
  24. Rise In Violence Linked To Poor Statistics. Or Climate Change
  25. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Researchers
  26. Young Writer (Not Me) Seeks Employment
  27. XKeyscore: Too Early For I Told You So?

July 2013

  1. Work Of A Young Set Theorist
  2. C.S. Lewis On The Validity of Reasoning
  3. Another Revolution In College Learning
  4. Bishop Tutu: “I’d Rather Go To Hell Than…”
  5. More On True Models And Predictive Inference
  6. Six Types Of Atheists?
  7. Royal Baby’s Incorrect “Gender”
  8. There Is No Such Thing As Unconditional Probability: Update
  9. California Students To Choose Genders, Bathrooms: Update
  10. On The Probability God Exists
  11. Something From Nothing: Or, A Heavenly Fish Sandwich
  12. From Claude Shannon To Demonic Mosquitoes To Bluegill
  13. Good Gnus—PG Wodehouse Hunting Poem
  14. Happy 50th Bill & Marilyn!
  15. Two New Dice Games: Animosity & Disdain
  16. What Regression Really Is
  17. Submit! Update
  18. See The Dancing Briggs
  19. A True Hat Story
  20. Obesity Is Now A “Disease”
  21. Gentlemen, Don’t Do It
  22. Sharks. Tornadoes. SHARKNADOES!
  23. Same-Sex Marriage, The Happy Solution For All!
  24. Same-Sex Marriage For And Against: Part IV
  25. Significance Magazine Announces Its Pro-Abortion Position
  26. Same-Sex Marriage For And Against: Part III
  27. Same-Sex Marriage For And Against: Part II
  28. Same-Sex Marriage For And Against: Part I

June 2013

  1. Objective Bayes Vs. Logical Probability (Vs. Frequentism)
  2. New Theme Ideas?
  3. “Freedom Includes Total Diversity”
  4. Government Became Unstoppable Yesterday
  5. Direct And Inverse Probability: The Bayesian Way
  6. Jumping The Infinity Shark: An Answer To Senn; Part Last
  7. Bayes Always Works: An Answer To Senn; Part V
  8. Fingers Lakes Wine Tasting Notes
  9. Highs And Lows Of Summer Skirts: Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
  10. An Ensemble Of Models Is Completely Meaningful, Statistically: Update 2
  11. All Probability Is Conditional: An Answer To Senn; Part IV
  12. Probability Isn’t “Fair”: An Answer To Senn; Part III
  13. There Is Only One Kind Of Probability: An Answer To Senn; Part II
  14. Bayes Is More Than Probably Right: An Answer To Senn; Part I
  15. Cornell Teaching Sojourn: Probability, Stats, & R
  16. Tobacco Ads Could Lead To Cancer Cure
  17. Unsignificant Statistics: Or Die P-Value, Die Die Die
  18. Scientists Discover Way To Increase Publication Count
  19. Krauthammer’s Wrong: NSA Spying Not Equivalent To Policing
  20. You Do Too Have Something To Hide
  21. Smartness Is False And Oppresive: Zeus–Update
  22. Data Mining, PRISM, NSA & False Positives: Update
  23. What Should Philosophers Of Statistics Do?
  24. Never Say “Caused By Chance”
  25. George Weigel’s Evangelical Catholicism , A Brief Review
  26. The Consensus On Global Cooling
  27. Relevance, Tolerance, And Vanishing Christianity
  28. Taiwanese And Chinese Toilet Icons

May 2013

  1. Tweet Hate Map: Awful, Really Awful Use Of Statistics
  2. Tyranny Of The Mean
  3. Oh Good, We Have Consensus About Climate Change
  4. Where’s Your Poppy? — The Blonde Bombshell Speaks
  5. Top 15 Posts Of All Time: My Choice
  6. Top 20 Posts Of All Time: Reader’s Choice
  7. The Sexual Habits Of The Tunisian Male Quantified At Last
  8. People Growing Dumber Or Research Growing Slacker?
  9. What’s The Official Name For Governance By Thuggery?
  10. Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part Final: Parameters!
  11. Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part IV
  12. Prime Minister Kenny’s Abortion Bill Would Save One Life A Year, Take Others
  13. Damn Straight News: Manly Men More Likely To Be Conservative
  14. Coal-Fired Power Plants Fuel Suicide—Or Maybe Sanguinity
  15. Angelina Jolie’s Decisions Shouldn’t Necessarily Be Yours
  16. On Arguing
  17. Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part III
  18. Government Creates More Speech Codes For Campuses: How To Fight Back
  19. A Common Fallacy In Global Warming Arguments
  20. Political Philosophy: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part IX
  21. Fashion Predictions: The Return Of The Waistcoat
  22. Health Is Not A Goal
  23. Celeste Greig Fired Over Rape Comments
  24. Over-Optimism In Physician Prognoses
  25. Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part II
  26. Mexican Hat Fallacy
  27. Woman To Marry Fairground Ride. A New Sexual ‘Orientation’?
  28. More On Flying
  29. Manhattan Methane Mystery: Or, A Curious Way To Argue For Green Energy

April 2013

  1. Scientists Suddenly Discover Men Don’t Understand Women
  2. Applied Ethics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VIII
  3. Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part I
  4. Is This The Real William M. Briggs?
  5. Poor Statistics Undermine The Reliability Of Neuroscience
  6. General Ethics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VII
  7. Belief In God Associated With Psychiatric Symptoms
  8. Two Kinds Of Bad Statistics Caused By Publish & Perish
  9. Russian Roulette And Certainty
  10. Epistemology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VI
  11. The Hypocrisy Fallacy: If You Don’t Do What’s Right, I Don’t Have To Either!
  12. Thinking About Dying Or Just Saw Bad Art? Pop A Tylenol, Say Researchers
  13. Physical Anthropology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part V
  14. Cosmology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part IV
  15. Scientists Claim Brain Scans Can ID Pre-Criminals
  16. Natural Theology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part III
  17. Metaphysics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part II
  18. Logic: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part I
  19. Evolution Is Not Inconsistent With Christianity
  20. Six Rules For Wearing Suits For Beginners
  21. The Return Of Eugenics
  22. Good Ways Of Speaking About Truth
  23. Bad Ways Of Speaking About Truth
  24. Dinner With Atheists: A Mini-Play In One Act
  25. Regression To The Mean (And Performance Curses) Simply Explained
  26. Sam Harris Asks, “Can Science Answer Moral Questions?” No, Sam, It Cannot
  27. The Unbelievers: The Movie. Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss On Tour
  28. The Horrors And Hurt Feelings Of Profiling
  29. Knife-Wielding Teens Invade High School
  30. Small Things

March 2013

  1. Government Health Care Simply Explained
  2. Life Isn’t Fair: Part III
  3. Life Isn’t Fair: Part II
  4. Life Isn’t Fair: Part I
  5. Supreme Court And Proposition 8: A Few Thoughts
  6. Best Books Project
  7. Proposed Scottish Law To Allow 16-Year-Olds To Have “Doctors” Kill Them
  8. New Science Fiction Recommendation
  9. The Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage, Part IV (Final)
  10. The Regnerus Controversy: Children In Traditional Families Do Better Than Those Raised In Non-Traditional Settings
  11. A New Row Over Pregnancy Caused by Rape
  12. The Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage, Part III
  13. The Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage, Part II
  14. The Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage, Part I
  15. Homeopathic Blog Post
  16. Richard Dawkins Is A Dangerous Man: Update
  17. Climategate 3.0—Update: Hacker A Coder?
  18. How Long Do Popes Serve? Update
  19. Paddy Power’s Pope Predictions—Update
  20. Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat?
  21. Doomed Planet: Changing Sun, Changing Climate
  22. How Effective Was This Year’s Flu Vaccine?
  23. Give Children The Vote?
  24. Beer Goggles Not Real?
  25. Correlation And Coincidence
  26. Bayesian Statistics Ruled Illegal?
  27. Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” Abortions
  28. EPA’s Climate Change Adaptation Plan
  29. 7-Year-Old Suspended For Carrying Unlicensed Pop Tart: Update
  30. What Day Most Changed History?
  31. On Dowsing—Guest Post by Ray Kidd

February 2013

  1. Science Can Tell If You’re A Racist Just By Looking At You
  2. The Second & Third Most Depressing Graphs: The Encroachment Of Government
  3. The Most Depressing Graph: Per Capita Federal Spending Rises Alarmingly: Update
  4. Best Movie Oscar Prediction Via Statistical Modeling: Update, The Model Wins
  5. Science Proves Farting On Airplanes, Exposing Buttocks To Sun Healthy
  6. Global warming causes prostitution!
  7. Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism
  8. David Daley, Salon Executive Editor, Is A Racist
  9. The Philosophy of Data
  10. Books For Offer: Cleaning Out The Shelves
  11. Curses Foiled Again
  12. Yet Another Study “Proves” Liberal, Conservative Brain Differences
  13. Statistics “Proves” Men And Women Are The Same
  14. Team Dorner And Race
  15. DC Comics Fans Call For Boycott Over Orson Scott Card’s Same-Sex “Marriage” Views
  16. Pope Benedict To Resign
  17. Historic Storm Nemo And The Feminization Of America. Crucial Photographic Updates
  18. Selective Abortion To Create Master Race: Progressive Academic Pushes For Moral Enhancement
  19. Sex Selection And In Vitro Fertilization
  20. E-books Will Lead To A Decrease In Reading
  21. Firearm Homicide Rates Around The World: Comparing With USA
  22. Bayesian Probability Is Not Subjective (It Only Seems Like It Is)
  23. Bayesian Probability & Swinburne’s P-Inductive & C-Inductive Arguments (For God’s Existence)
  24. Mr Clarence Beeks, a.k.a. King Pleasure
  25. Lightning May Cause Headaches, Moon May Cause Domestic Intranquility

January 2013

  1. No Post Today
  2. Academic Suggests Shaming Fat People Into Thinness
  3. Updates: What’s Happening With Briggs? With the On-line Course? Etc.?
  4. Resolved: Women In Combat Results In A Suboptimal Military: Update
  5. Statistics Is Not Math: Update To Allow New Comments
  6. Does Barack Obama Have A Mandate? A Look At The Numbers
  7. Use And Abuses Of Decision Analysis: Global Warming Example
  8. A Citizen’s Guide to Global Warming Evidence
  9. Genetic Engineering To Create New Super Moral Race: Savulescu Strikes Again
  10. A Statistician’s Lament
  11. Changing Attitudes On Suicide And Euthanasia
  12. Paul “Population Bomb” Ehrlich Asks, “Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?” Yes, Paul. Yes It Can
  13. Support For Abortion by Reason: Mother’s Health Tops List: Attitudes Are Inconsistent
  14. Firearm Homicides Dropping.: There Is No Need For New Gun Restrictions.
  15. Precaution: Part V (Final)—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
  16. Privatization Kills?: Or, Doctors Under Government Control Save More Lives?
  17. Adjusted Mass Public Shootings per Decade Uncorrelated With Gun Ownership
  18. Precaution: Part IV—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
  19. What Happened to the News?—Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
  20. Precaution: Part III—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
  21. Is There Free Will? A Conversation With Dr. Sam Hurtus
  22. Anthropogenic Forcing Signals Not Significant? New Polynomial Cointegration Test Paper
  23. Review and Comments on Anna Karenina—Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
  24. Precaution: Part II—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
  25. The HHS Mandate & Hobby Lobby: Updated
  26. Who Is A Mother When Same-Sex “Marriage” Arrives?
  27. Precaution: Part I — Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
  28. American Atheists, Hispanic Division Sues Federal Government Over Documents
  29. How’d Our 2012 Predictions Fare?

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