Transfallacies — Common Fallacies Used To Justify Transsexualism
I don’t know why they had a special Day of Visibility for “transgenders”. You can’t miss men in dresses pretending to be women. They are visibility itself. Nevertheless, the Day was had, affording the...
View ArticlePinheads To Create Official Ministry Of Truth: Climate “Disinformation” To Be...
Regular readers are sick of reading, yet must endure it once more, that officially defining “misinformation” and “disinformation” necessitates the creation of a Ministry of Truth. Some agency must...
View Article“Let Us Kill! Let Us Kill!” The Left Chants As Justice Alito Smiles On
Propagandists are celebrating. Not the possibility that ghouls calling themselves “doctors” will no longer be able to kill legally the lives inside would-be mothers—and use the dead bodies in various...
View ArticleThe Step Back Shuffle Problem In The Origin Of Life
Science does not know what life is. Which is to say, the definition of life is not scientific. Science begins with the definition—supplied by outside sources and methods—and then does its best to...
View ArticleYuval Noah Harari’s Bad Argument About AI Ruling The World
Here, in his own words, is the argument Yuval Noah Harari uses to justify his transhumanism. 1. Organisms are algorithms. Every animal — including Homo sapiens — is an assemblage of organic algorithms...
View ArticleWhy Dembski’s Design Inference (Of Causation) Goes Wrong
Probability does not exist; therefore, nothing has a probability, so nothing can be caused by probability, though the uncertainty of statements can be had conditional on assumptions, and this...
View ArticleDavid Stove Exposes Karl Popper’s Wee P!
We have discussed before (and in detail here) how Fisher, inventor of the wee P of which scientists boast (“Look how small my P is!” shouted the excited scientist), was deeply influenced by the ideas...
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Spurious Correlations Proves Hypothesis Testing Should Be Abandoned
This week traditionally is a slow week on the blog, so let me have a go at explaining something I’ve explained a few hundred times before, a thing which has not yet stuck. Maybe the pace of the day...
View ArticleProbability is Logic
I was reading a draft of a book our own Fr John Rickert’s is working on. Visual Logic: Seeing Classical and Modern Logic: An Introduction, a neat little handbook showing how to demonstrate and prove...
View ArticleSabine Hossenfelder Tries, Using Free Will, To Explain She Doesn’t Have Free...
Here’s a video Philosopher’s Cabin asked me to review. We met its author, Sabine Hossenfelder, before, when she was trying to explain how black holes enhanced Diversity, or the other way around, or...
View ArticleThe Meta-Fallacy: The Mother Of All Fallacies
This is an excerpt from Chapter 26 of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. I am very much interested to learn of reader’s experience with this fallacy. Please let us know in the comments. Meta Fallacy The...
View ArticleVoting Causes Suspicion & Distrust
This is a modified excerpt from the Chapter on Voting in Everything You Believe Is Wrong. Why Do We Vote? Why do we vote in official elections? Or indeed elections of any kind? Because there are...
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All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To...
Seventy-some researcher groups were given identical data, and asked to investigate an identical question. The groups did not communicate. Details are in the paper “Observing Many Researchers Using the...
View ArticleThe Broken Science Initiative: Two Introductory Videos
The Broken Science Initiative, to which I have been invited, has at last been launched at a recent get together in California. Greg Glassman introduces the topic. You will recognize many of the names...
View ArticleReader Question: Probability is not real in the sense that real life things...
Anon writes: Mr. Briggs, I am trying to understand the statement in the title. It [probability] is a measure of uncertainty. It is a measure of what we know or do not know. It is epistemic, not ontic....
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What Is Science?
More streams coming! Including iTunes, if I can get by the censors. You can also listen at YouTube. See this frog? The “IFL Science” people say that frog is Science. IFL is a juvenile crudity which...
View ArticleIt Takes Just As Much Free Will To Punish As To Do Wrong
Listen to the podcast on YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Thing that always cracks me up about anti-free will arguments is the contradictions. Too many of those arguments take this shape: if only people knew...
View ArticleWhat Is A Model? We need to know to test between good and bad science
Listen to the podcast at YouTube, BitChute, and Gab. Before we describe what models are in science, it’s best to know, and to never forget, that all models only say what they are told to say. Models...
View ArticleWhy The Continuing Appeal Of The Appeal To Non-Authority Fallacy?
Listen to the podcast at YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you proof that “climate change” has completed its transformation from Science into yet another foolish...
View ArticleThe Appalling Scientism Of “Follow The Science!”
Listen to the podcast at YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Our culture is saturated in scientism. Scientism comes in various forms. One is the belief that all knowledge is scientific — which is a proposition...
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