William M. Briggs

William M. Briggs. the Statistician to the Stars!, is a writer, philosopher and itinerant scientist, who lives far from Experts. He earned his PhD from Cornell University (before it became fully woke) 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.