NSF to Science: DIE! Science to NSF: Bye!
A committee of the US Senate scanned all the grants doled out by the National Science Foundation over about three years, and discovered (with my emphasis) “3,483 grants, more than ten percent of all...
View ArticleTrust The Models: Rare Candy Podcast
I was on the Rare Candy podcast earlier this week. Fun discussion of the over-seriousness of science, the over-reliance on models, and much more. They tell me that they have done work on remote...
View ArticleClass 25: Not A Chance
Jaynes’s book (first part): https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf Permanent class page: https://www.wmbriggs.com/class/ Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science Link to all...
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If Trump Wins, Will There Be Chaos?
I blew my prediction that the left would dump Biden and install Gruesome Newsom in his place, fortify the election in his favor, and so cement permanent leftist rule (blog/Substack). Got the Biden...
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Of Course Neo-Darwinian Evolution By “Random” Mutation Is Wrong
I apologize for not getting right to the point. I can’t. Everybody’s premises are wrong, and it requires work to set them right. I think the young people enjoy it when I “get down” verbally, don’t...
View ArticleAddicted To Drug — Statistics
I have long told you that when drug companies produce statistics, for the consumption of regulatory agencies or the public, their products look better than the same statistics produced by others, or...
View ArticleClass 26: Randomization Does Nothing
Jaynes’s book (first part): https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf Permanent class page: https://www.wmbriggs.com/class/ Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science Link to all...
View ArticleThe Science Of Transitioning Children
The story is a “doctor” file-drawered a study which said kids drugged and maimed in service to the lunatic theory that people can “transition” to a different sex, sex now called a “gender” in a vain...
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The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then Suddenly
Here’s a graph which I entitle Gradually Then Suddenly (ladies, try not to swoon over my astonishing artistic gifts): If you’re a classicist you might prefer the title Motus In Fine Velocior, which...
View ArticleHell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ Reviewed
My dear readers, this can be disturbing material. It is, after all, the description of a non-comedic unsettling zombie movie. If you dislike such things, please do not read further. Dawn of the Dead,...
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How Tim Walz Did Not Know Models Only Say What They’re Told To Say
I have loathed Tim Walz since the covid panic. He embraced hersterical models, and used the excuse they were The Science to grab power. Briefly, in May 2020, as you’ll see below, panic models...
View ArticleClass 27: Probability Is In Your Mind, Not Things
Jaynes’s book (first part): https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf Permanent class page: https://www.wmbriggs.com/class/ Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science Link to all...
View ArticleSee You On The Other Side
Half the country will be unhappy late tonight. Or in a few days, when the last of the new votes are “discovered”. Yet be of good cheer! This was all foretold. We are an “our democracy”, or at least an...
View ArticleWe Win
Now is the time to bring it to the enemy. Consolidate the victory. I volunteer to be the Science Advisor. Or Advisor for the Official Advisor. My platform (in brief). God bless us all. I made rather...
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