William M Briggs, Author at The Stream

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William M Briggs

William M. Briggs is a Senior Contributor to The Stream. Author of Uncertainty, he is a writer, philosopher, and itinerant scientist living on a small but densely populated island in the Atlantic Ocean. He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University in statistics. He studies the philosophy of science, the use and misuses of uncertainty, the corruption of science, and the uselessness of most predictions. He began life as a cryptologist for the Air Force, slipped into weather and climate forecasting, and matured into an epistemologist. He maintains an active and lively blog at wmbriggs.com.

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Military, Opinion, Politics | 5 years ago

The Oligarchy Purges the Military

Let’s hope no foreign power decides to attack us or any of our sworn friends (I use the term reluctantly) in the next two months. The military will be too busy to respond. They’ll have laid down their arms, or…