Sandwalk

At the end of last year (2024) I posted an article about distinguished molecular biologist William Hasletine who published an article in Fo...

This is a podcast in French on the topic of junk DNA. The moderator is Thomas C. Durand of La Tronche en Biais , a YouTube channel that focu...

The John Templeton Foundation supports "interdisciplinary research and catalyze conversations that enable people to pursue lives of me...

A few months ago (June, 2024) I commented on an article by Tom Cech in The New York Times . [ Tom Cech writes about the "dark matter...

Every now and then I check Google to see if there's any news about junk DNA. I use "junk DNA" as my search query. The fi...

The idea that most of the human genome is junk originated more that 50 years ago. Since then, evidence in support of this concept has steadi...

The Center for Science and Culture (sic) and the Discovery Institute (sic) have published another propaganda video on junk DNA. The emphasis...

This is a Come Let Us Reason Together (sic) podcast moderated by Lenny Esposito with Faxale "Fuz" Rana of Reasons to Believe a...

Current Opinion in Plant Biology has a special edition devoted to Genome studies and molecular genetics 2024 . The only paper (so far) that...

Lungfish are our closest living fish cousins. All living terrestrial vertebrates (e.g. amphibians, mammals, reptiles) descent from a common ...

I just learned that John Mattick gave a seminar this morning at the Department of Cell & Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. U...

Scite Assistant is billed as "your AI research partner" and as "ChatGPT for researchers." It's supposed to draw on ...

Zach Hancock is a postdoc in ecology & evoluvionary biology at the University of Michigan. He has a YouTube channel with several thousa...

Tom Cech won a Nobel Prize for discovering one example of a catalytic RNA. He recently published an article in the New York Times extolling...

Here's a link to the junk DNA debate between Dan Stern Cardinale and Casey Luskin. The debate took place on May 2, 2024. ...

On Thursday May 2, 2024, Casey Luskin and Dan Stern Cardinale debated junk DNA on the YouTube channel "The NonSequitor Show." Davi...

Intelligent Design Creationists are heavily invested in refuting junk DNA because it casts doubt on their model of an intelligently designed...

Should universities remove online courses that contain incorrect or misleading information? There are lots of scientific controversies...

Paul Nelson is a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute—the most important source of intelligent design propaganda. Paul and I have been d...

I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...