Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
The Trouble With Science
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The purpose of a grant, after all, is to facilitate research. But the rationale has become curiously inverted: now the purpose of one’s rese...
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Monday, October 21, 2013
Jukes to Crick on Junk DNA
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Dan Graur discovered that the term "junk DNA" was commonly used in the 1960's—long before Susumu Ohno used "junk" in...
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Evolution Is Irrelevant to Michael Egnor
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The title of this post suggest a story that's about as interesting as the proverbial "Dog Bites Man" story [see Man Bites Dog ...
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Monday's Molecule #220
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Last week's molecule was citrate synthase, one of many enzymes that show considerable amounts of structural change during binding. It lo...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
ASBMB Core Concepts in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Evolution
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Theme Better Biochemistry Tansey et al. (2013) have described the five core concepts in biochemistry and molecular biology. These are the ...
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Darwinists Are Racists?
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Intelligent Design Creationists are upset when I call them IDiots. They don't realize that the easiest way to make me stop is for them t...
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Monday, October 14, 2013
Fundamental Concepts in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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Theme Better Biochemistry The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) advocates for a concept-driven approach to t...
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Monday's Molecule #219
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Last week's molecule was cobalamin or vitamin B12. The structure was solved by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin who won the Nobel Prize in Chemi...
The Accommodationist View of Kevin Padian
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In a recent post, I discussed the way Kevin Padian views evolution and why he thinks textbooks misrepresent evolution [see Misrepresentation...
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Misrepresentations of Evolution in Textbooks: Definition of Evolution According to Kevin Padian
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Kevin Padian is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Curator of Paleontology at the University of California Museum of...
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Friday, October 11, 2013
ASBMB Promotes Concept Driven Teaching Strategies in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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The latest issue of BAMBED ( Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education ) contains a series of articles on "Foundational Concepts and...
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Three Senior Fellows of the Discovery Institute Will Discuss Criticisms of
Dawin's Doubt
on a Radio Show on October 23
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Evolution News & Views (sic) will bring together David Klinghoffer and Stephen Meyer to discuss Darwin's Doubt on the Michael Medv...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
John G. West Speaks Out Against Using Derogatory Labels to Describe Your Opponents
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John G. West is Vice President for Public Policy and Legal Affairs of the Center for Science and Culture (CSC)—the most important Intelligen...
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Wednesday, October 09, 2013
October 7-14th Is Quackery Week
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The week is half over and nobody told me it's Quackery Week. Perhpas that's because it's only Quackery Week in the USA. The US S...
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19,853 People Can't Be Wrong ... Can They?
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There are days when I think that Canadians will never, ever, become rational, scientifically literate, thinkers. Today is one of those days....
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