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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Siddhartha Mukherjee tries to correct his book
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There are lots of things wrong with Mukherjee's best-selling book The Gene . I've listed a few things that I know about [ What is a ...
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The most important thing about nature according to Bill Martin
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My friend and colleague, Alex Palazzo, alerted me to an interview of Bill Martin published in the July 11, 2016 issue of Current Biology [...
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Thursday, July 28, 2016
You are junk
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There's an article about junk DNA in the latest issue of New Scientist (July 27, 2016) [ You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that mak...
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False history and the number of genes: 2016
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There's an article about junk DNA in the latest issue of New Scientist . The title is: You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make y...
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What is "THE" theory of evolution?
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I wish people would stop referring to "THE" Theory of Evolution. What they really mean, of course, is "The Theory of Natural ...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
The seven biggest problems in science
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Here's an interesting article about the biggest problems in (American) science: The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 ...
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Bastille Day
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Today is the FĂȘte Nationale in France known also as "le quatorze juillet" or Bastille Day . This is the day in 1789 when French ci...
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Monday, July 11, 2016
A genetics professor who rejects junk DNA
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Praveen Sethupathy is a genetics professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. He explains why he is...
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Science journal tries to fix problems with transparency and trustworthiness
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The editors of Science recognize that they have a problem. They aren't very transparent or trustworthy. This is true. These same editor...
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Nature journal tries to fix the problem of a scientific literature that's too complex to understand
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I recently posted some thoughts on the complexity of the scientific literature noting that many papers are simply too difficult to understan...
Sunday, July 10, 2016
What is a "gene" and how do genes work according to Siddhartha Mukherjee?
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It's difficult to explain fundamental concepts of biology to the average person. That's why I'm so interested in Siddhartha Mukh...
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Monday, July 04, 2016
Paradigm shifting at the Royal Society meeting in November
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Suzan Mazur has been making a name for herself by promoting the overthrow of modern evolutionary theory. She began with a lot of hype about ...
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TED-Ed misrepresents epigenetics
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TED-Ed is the educational arm of TED. Here's what TED says about itself and about TED-Ed ... TED believes passionately that ideas have...
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Sunday, July 03, 2016
The scientific literature is becoming more complex
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A recent paper by Cordero et al. (2016) looked at the biological scientific literature in 1993, 2003, and 2013. They found that the average ...
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Friday, July 01, 2016
How to read the scientific literature?
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Science addressed the problem of How to (seriously) read a scientific paper by asking a group of Ph.D. students, post-docs, and scientists...
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