Science Is Not The Answer: Should We Coerce Covid Drugs Because Science?
I have been asked by several, several times, to start a Substack. I have no idea why clicking on a Substack article is different than clicking here. But this might be like an old man ranting he can’t...
View ArticleCelebrating The Court’s Common Sense — And Lamenting Its Mistake
The OSHA opinion is here: the “Health” opinion is here. We earlier went through the Fifth Circuit quashing the OSHA mandate. The Court ruled twice yesterday. Once on the OSHA dictate, and once on the...
View ArticleSolved: The Best Bayesian Prior To Use In Every Situation
Kevin Gray is back with another question, this time about priors. His last led to the post “Was Fisher Wrong? Whether Or Not Statistical Models Are Needed.” (The answer was yes and no.) Here’s his new...
View ArticlePhysicists Trying To Show God Not Necessary Prove God Is Necessary
There must be a reason that 2i + 2i = 4i, an unobservable number, as all numbers are, but as is most obvious in numbers like i = sqrt(-1). There must be a reason why there are not just an infinity, but...
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Bertrand’s Paradox — Solved!
Anon sent a question about Bertrand’s Paradox. The paradox is supposed to show something has gone wrong with our thinking in probability. And it has, but not in the way its proponents imagine. There’s...
View ArticleThe Hierarchy Of Intelligences & IQ: We’re Not As Smart As We Think
Let’s think about degrees of intelligence; specifically, our knowledge of them. Now many believe that intelligence, vaguely defined, can be quantified to good, or even ideal, degree with IQ. I do not....
View ArticleThe First Cause is a Trinity: No More, No Less — Guest Post by Oldavid
The purpose of this essay is to provide a very simple “lowbrow” refutation of Modernism’s “neo- pantheism” using concepts intelligible to even the most unsophisticated pragmatic and sane mind. The...
View ArticleHung Jury: The Verdict On Uncertainty
This invited paper (which I forgot to post!) appeared in the festschrift for Hung T. Nguyen, previously at New Mexico State University and now at Chiang Mai University, to celebrate his entry into the...
View ArticleOn Demonic Knowledge
Here is a thread worth discussing: Technology and Demons a helios thread pic.twitter.com/73LYraEoFb — heli?s (@helioslogos) May 29, 2021 The main points the gentleman makes are these: “All technology...
View Article“Thomism” is Invalid: A Proof by Contradiction — Guest Post by John Kelleher
Briggs: My rebuttal is in the comments. For centuries, a welter of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic commentators, with nary a whimper from their “common sense,” dutifully repeated Aristotle’s statement...
View ArticleWigner’s Friend Didn’t Invite Him To The Party
From reader Caleb Hansen comes this email: I hemorrhaged brain cells while reading this article from “Interesting Engineering” and thought to share it with you. [link to article] The experts get so...
View ArticleThe Problem With Ethical Egoism — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Ethical egoism is the position that says that one ought to value oneself above others and that one ought to always act with the aim of benefiting oneself. Ethical egoism also holds that one should only...
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More Proof Hypothesis Testing Is Wrong & Why The Predictive Method Is The...
Here it is, friends, the one complete universal simple function, the only function you will ever need to fit any—I said any—dataset x. And all it takes is one—I said one—parameter! . Magnificent, ain’t...
View ArticleWhy Everything You Believe Is Wrong w/ Dr. WM Briggs — Podcast
I was on Pat Flynn’s podcast last week, during which he kindly interviewed me on the book that is shocking the nation, Everything You Believe Is Wrong (paperback, kindle). Once it is released 1...
View ArticleScience Is Not The Answer: Should We Coerce Covid Drugs Because Science?
I have been asked by several, several times, to start a Substack. I have no idea why clicking on a Substack article is different than clicking here. But this might be like an old man ranting he can’t...
View ArticleCelebrating The Court’s Common Sense — And Lamenting Its Mistake
The OSHA opinion is here: the “Health” opinion is here. We earlier went through the Fifth Circuit quashing the OSHA mandate. The Court ruled twice yesterday. Once on the OSHA dictate, and once on the...
View ArticleSolved: The Best Bayesian Prior To Use In Every Situation
Kevin Gray is back with another question, this time about priors. His last led to the post “Was Fisher Wrong? Whether Or Not Statistical Models Are Needed.” (The answer was yes and no.) Here’s his new...
View ArticlePhysicists Trying To Show God Not Necessary Prove God Is Necessary
There must be a reason that 2i + 2i = 4i, an unobservable number, as all numbers are, but as is most obvious in numbers like i = sqrt(-1). There must be a reason why there are not just an infinity, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bertrand’s Paradox — Solved!
Anon sent a question about Bertrand’s Paradox. The paradox is supposed to show something has gone wrong with our thinking in probability. And it has, but not in the way its proponents imagine. There’s...
View ArticleThe Hierarchy Of Intelligences & IQ: We’re Not As Smart As We Think
Let’s think about degrees of intelligence; specifically, our knowledge of them. Now many believe that intelligence, vaguely defined, can be quantified to good, or even ideal, degree with IQ. I do not....
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