tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post8135296067336255689..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: Stupid Harvard press release illustrates the importance of author responsibilityLarry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-25933527821638571362015-04-23T09:03:26.022-04:002015-04-23T09:03:26.022-04:00The real issue is, of course, the misnomer pseudog...The real issue is, of course, the misnomer pseudogene.<br /><br />To stupid to think out of the Darwinian box, the name implies non-functional junk DNA. <br /><br />It's no junk and pseuo-goo, you science stoppers, it is a regulatory part of the RNA computer with protein output.<br /><br /><br /><br />peerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13511262660273927645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-62892755247311447212015-04-09T16:07:10.441-04:002015-04-09T16:07:10.441-04:00Well, they convinced me I don't want any pseud...Well, they convinced me I don't want any pseudogenes just like the Food Babe convinced me I don't want to eat anything with chemicals in it.anthrosciguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192669356363848169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-5596329712243920232015-04-06T10:16:23.315-04:002015-04-06T10:16:23.315-04:00The Beth Israel release has a fair number of Pando...The Beth Israel release has a fair number of Pandolfi quotes along the lines of "It is vital to fund my research at tremendously high levels because cancer!"judmarchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03111006189037693272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-56513970925665731652015-04-04T18:23:50.432-04:002015-04-04T18:23:50.432-04:00I think you mean passive *voice*.I think you mean passive *voice*.J. Chapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506843356937504407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-83581754335539682332015-04-04T15:24:37.121-04:002015-04-04T15:24:37.121-04:00Besides being pressiopaths, they're passive te...Besides being pressiopaths, they're passive tense pussies.<br /><br /><i>have long been considered nothing more than genomic "junk."</i><br /><br />Who did the considering, you PTP? <br /><br />Passive tense pussies have long been despised. I won't say by whom.Diogeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15551943619872944637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-74455909178244768982015-04-04T15:20:28.830-04:002015-04-04T15:20:28.830-04:00Pressiopaths.
Is there a stick of evidence that t...Pressiopaths.<br /><br />Is there a stick of evidence that this pseudogene and its micro RNA decoy mechanism plays any role or has any function in a non-cancerous cell? OK, you over express it and that causes cancer. How is that proof of function? Eat enough polonium and you'll drop dead, that doesn't prove polonium has a biological function.<br /><br />And from this, they generalize to all pseudogenes.Diogeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15551943619872944637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-86860016653159398482015-04-04T14:49:34.593-04:002015-04-04T14:49:34.593-04:00The Harvard press release has this note on the bot...The Harvard press release has this note on the bottom: " Adapted from a Beth Israel Deaconess news release." The title for the Beth Israel Deaconess release is "An Evolutionary Relic of the Genome Causes Cancer": http://is.gd/s1uAGRVeronica Abbasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07037599323472646996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-88722001709175353942015-04-04T13:49:33.491-04:002015-04-04T13:49:33.491-04:00Strangely enough, though the sam DOI is given on t...Strangely enough, though the sam DOI is given on the journal's website, it doesn't work (not activated yet?). The introductory paragraphs of the press release are astounding. I'm a layman, but I could easily make a long list of glaring errors they contain. Either none of the authors was asked to have a look at the press release or... I shudder to think of the other possibility.Piotr GÄ…siorowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06339278493073512102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-22170854769643135752015-04-04T11:42:27.598-04:002015-04-04T11:42:27.598-04:00I'm going to be in my office in a few minutes ...I'm going to be in my office in a few minutes so I can look at the paper then. Did you Google "Department of Biochemistry University of Toronto"?Larry Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-86128595559874695042015-04-04T10:44:31.295-04:002015-04-04T10:44:31.295-04:00I would have sent you the pdf but "You can c...I would have sent you the pdf but "You can contact him by looking up his email address on the University of Toronto website." does not seem to work. Gerdien de Jonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00894162221492009289noreply@blogger.com