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                                    Strolling with a skeptical biochemist

Monday, September 27, 2021

The biggest mistake in the history of molecular biology (not!)

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The creationists are committed to proving that most of our genome is functional because otherwise the idea of an intelligent designer doesn...
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Monday, September 13, 2021

Most scientists dismiss the lab leak conspiracy theory

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A recent review in Science has the following subtitle, "Why most scientists say it's unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a la...
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Friday, September 10, 2021

21 experts support a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2

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Here's a link to a recent review on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 written by 21 scientists from seven different countries. They are all reco...
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Is the media finally realizing that they have been duped into promoting the lab leak conspiracy theory?

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I would like to think that the media will eventually wake up and recognize the science behind the origin of SARS-CoV-2. It overhelmingly sup...
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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Conversation with Massimo Pigliucci

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This is really worth one hour of your time. You will learn about knowledge and abduction and lots of other things.
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Friday, July 09, 2021

Mutation, Randomness, & Evolution

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I just received my copy of a book by Arlin Stoltzfus on mutation. I haven't finished reading it but I thought Sandwalk readers should k...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Richard Dawkins talks about the genetic code and information

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This is a video published a few weeks ago where Jon Perry interviews Richard Dawkins. Jon Perry is the author of animations posted on his we...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Is the Modern Synthesis effectively dead?

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The Modern Synthesis is the version of evolutionary theory popularized by Julian Huxley and supported by the leading evolutionary biologists...
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Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Let's analyze the Newsweek lab leak conspiracy theory article

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Lots of people have been sucked in to the lab leak conspiracy theory based on reporting in newspapers and magazines. One of the widely-cited...
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Saturday, June 05, 2021

Real scientists discuss the lab leak conspiracy theory

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Here's an interesting video where the hosts of "This Week in Virology" (Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler) d...
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Monday, May 31, 2021

Nessa Carey talks about epigenetics

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Nessa Carey wrote a horribe book about junk DNA where she completely misunderstood the science. It's one of many examples of bad science...
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Sunday, May 30, 2021

Telomere-to-telomere sequencing of a complete human genome

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Here's a paper that has recently been posted on the preprint server bioRxiv. Nurk et al. (2021) The complete sequence of a human gen...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

The SARS-CoV-2 reference genome

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Chinese scientists isolated virus particles from a patient admitted to hospital on December 26, 2019 in Wuhan, China. The RNA genome was seq...
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Monday, May 10, 2021

MIT Professor Rick Young doesn't understand junk DNA

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Richard ("Rick") Young is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Whitehead Insti...
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Saturday, May 08, 2021

World Health Organization (WHO) report on the natural origin theory of SARS-CoV-2

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The origin of SARS-Cov-2 is a hot topic these days. As far as I can tell, the consensus view among the experts is that the ancestor is from ...
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