(My enemies changed the title. I have changed it back. They will pay for this insolence.) Daylight savings time is something that angers many performatively, more than in truth. If…| William M. Briggs
If you cite, enjoy, or create “research” or “studies”, this post is a must. I’ve eschewed all math (given next time in The Wrong Way) and focused entirely on the…| William M. Briggs
Celebrities are, as you know and swear to, our leaders. Which makes it strange I could not find any investors for my What Does Your Favorite Celebrity Think About Hot…| William M. Briggs
According to Thomas Malthus (in later editions of On Population), the barriers to reproduction in man are three: misery, vice, and prudence. By misery he meant war, famine and pestilence.…| William M. Briggs
It is remarkable that persons most likely to screech at you about “believing in” evolution are apt to say things like “Trans women are women” or speak of “pregnant people”,…| William M. Briggs
This is a post all should read, and not just those following the Class. It is of utter necessity we learn the difference between uncertainty and decision, and the uncertainties…| William M. Briggs
Warning: I have not read all the papers on this subject. My experience is in these kinds of papers, which is to say, turning correlations into claims of causality. I…| William M. Briggs
There is a point about bad science at the end. I didn’t count, but I think it was less than 48, and surely less than 72, hours after Charlie Kirk…| William M. Briggs
Given Sabine’s penchant for posting overly shocked thumbnails for her video splash-screens, I present this equivalent dramatic image. I like to tease Sabine Hossenfelder, especially when she …| William M. Briggs
My last attempt to you convince you to think logically about evidence and reject P-values. Video Links: YouTube * Twitter – X * Rumble * Bitchute * Class Page *…| William M. Briggs
I beg your indulgence, dear reader. Please stay with me for these introductory paragraphs. I want to teach you how to read these papers so that you are well equipped…| William M. Briggs
We have a decision to make, you and I, dear reader. Is the peer-reviewed paper detailed below yet another asinine ridiculous dreary entry in the burgeoning anti-science of “climate change”,…| William M. Briggs
I was delighted to learn, via Hans Schantz’s Podcast: Sir Francis Bacon – Father of Scientism?, of the paper “The New Universal Church” by the late French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck.…| William M. Briggs
Because of events, I have postponed this week’s Class until next Thursday. Many on the Right, very understandably, are calling for violence in the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder.…| William M. Briggs
Dr. Hans G. Schantz, Principal Scientist at the Society for Post-Quantum Physics, is currently crowdfunding Fields & Energy Book I: Fundamentals & Origins of Electromagnetism, the first vol…| William M. Briggs
My heart soared like a hawk by the hundreds of supportive comments I got on Twitter from last week’s story about two academics who want government to genetically modify ticks so that more peo…| William M. Briggs
What do you make of this headline? “Female pilots perform better under pressure, study finds”. Story opens thusly: Female pilots may outperform their male counterparts in high-pressure …| William M. Briggs
“Death is not simply a biological fact,” tweeted Sandeep Jauhar, “but it’s also a social choice.” Death has become a social choice? He continues: “To increase th…| William M. Briggs
A lady says she has the ability to identify whether tea or milk is poured in a cup first. What does “have the ability mean?” and why is it so hard to figure probabilities for it? Video …| William M. Briggs
Incidentally, the header image is genuine and not AI. I still wonder why the right did not embrace the left’s call to defund police. Think about no police. Think long and hard. After the peri…| William M. Briggs
This classic column originally ran on 1 July 2008 under a different title. The original typos, placed by relentless enemies, have been removed. I have also added a serious-minded video from the Tat…| William M. Briggs
This classic column originally ran 31 July 2008. I edited it to provide a working link to the paper and to add the author’s Fig. 1. I have no idea, but two gentlemen from the Johnson School o…| William M. Briggs
Since this is typically the slowest week of the year—even Christmas is busier—this is a good time to introduce something strange. About twenty years ago I wrote a skeptical (do not forg…| William M. Briggs
So this squeezy squeaky gaunt gasping little apparatchik, obviously not suffering the burdens and responsibilities of possessing a great intellect, an Expert and functionary in the British Regime, …| William M. Briggs
Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science Link to all Classes. Jaynes’s book (first part): Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble Bitchute (often a day or so behind, for whateve…| William M. Briggs
In England, fed up at last, a few hearty Englishmen took to the streets to demonstrate to their rulers that they were displeased with rulers’ behavior. Rulers there, as here and elsewhere acr…| William M. Briggs
Now I know I am a mere puff of air in the typhoon of online discourse, but I do wish I could borrow a few decibels to make this one point stick: never use the enemy’s language. For a prime ex…| William M. Briggs
One of the most important rulers in the world announced, in public, out loud, with no fear of threat, that she and her fellow rulers will steal “no less than THREE TRILLION in new capital, fr…| William M. Briggs
My friends, as arcane as all this seems, we will need this in the Restoration. We need to restore Reality in all things, including Science. Link to all Classes. Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble …| William M. Briggs
The Big Toe Science has known for some time now that bodies exist only to perpetuate big toes. Big toes, or similar appendages on other creatures, including those nascent toe-like organelles found …| William M. Briggs
Catholic philosopher Wolfgang Smith died last Friday at age 94. Smith was one of the first in the movement to restore classical metaphysics to physics. Recall all physics must operate with a metaph…| William M. Briggs
UNCERTAINTY & PROBABILITY THEORY: THE LOGIC OF SCIENCE Links to YouTube, Rumble, Bitchute, and Twitter inside each class. Jayne’s Book (first part). Class 1: Logic teaser (blog, Substack)…| William M. Briggs
