Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind
Reminder: no Class until after Labor Day. Headlines blared that children growing up when the UK rationed sugar, a severe act resulting from one of their many wars, caused these…
William M. Briggs
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AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
Podcast with Ian Pilon. I’m on the road through next Monday. Posting will be somewhat oddly scheduled. There is a special post tomorrow (Thursday). Be ready for it! All my…
You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday
Brit coppers—do they still call them the Old Bill?—investigated reporter Jack Grove for months because Grove investigated serial truth fornicator and black Cambridge (now ex-) professor Jason Arday, a black…
Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200
Reminder: No Class until after Labor Day. Today’s title is real, and from a peer-reviewed paper of the same name by Mark Keegan and a bunch of other academics in…
The Impossibility of Proposition Nations
Here is Joel Berry (former Babylon Bee chief): “Israel is a proposition nation, like America.” A proposition nation is one in which, we are told, its citizens hold with a…
Ugly Women Rulers Condemn Lookism
It was right after women seized majority control of Congress that the woman we all know as The Big Talker revealed to her husband (that balding tenured sociologist at Bryn…
The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!
Lyrics [Verse 1]Oh the scientists are publishin’, crankin’ out those papers fastThey got a tiny pee-value, think they made it at long lastPoint oh five or lower, they shout it…
Wolfgang Smith For Everyone
The late Wolfgang Smith was fond of quoting St Thomas Aquinas from Summa Contra Gentiles (Book II, ch. 3): It is absolutely false to maintain, with reference to the truths…
Death By Organ Donation
I have to hand it to the trio of “doctors” who wrote the peer-reviewed NEJM paper “Contextualizing the Dead Donor Rule in an Era of Voluntary Euthanasia“. They didn’t seek…
$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?
Let’s take something silly and turn it into something shiny. And, in doing so, relearn the invaluable lesson that nothing has a probability. Somebody posted this receipt from a sale…
Caution Against The Precautionary Principle: Interview with Jaap Hanekamp
One thing I didn’t take precaution against was my own stupidity. A marvelous and constant, menacing thing you would think that, if anybody, I would have been ready for. You…
Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics
Next time you slide a Pringle over your tonsils, blame God. It was your unhealthy attitude to religion that made you crave that Oreo. Your inability to think proper thoughts…
Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics
You will have heard that David Hume claimed ethical oughts cannot be derived from any factual is (empirical observation). This is called Hume’s Guillotine, presumably for the great number of…
University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing
Before we get to our story, my deep and profound thanks to readers for getting us higher in the ranks. I am most grateful. I logged on Saturday and saw…