Sandwalk

Here's an example of a press release that distorts science by promoting incorrect information that is not found in the actual publicatio...

(This is a copy of an essay that I published in 2006. I made some minor revisions to remove outdated context.) Overheard at breakfast ...

I've been trying to reason with creationists for more than 30 years, beginning with debates on talk.origins back in the early 1990s. Som...

Can natural selection occur by chance or accident? No, with qualifications. Can evolution occur by chance or accident? Yes, definitely. ...

Wikipedia has a way of assessing the quality of articles that have been posted and edited. The rankings are somewhat confusing and it’s hard...

On Sept. 5, 2012 ENCODE researchers, in collaboration with the science journal Nature , launched a massive publicity campaign to convince th...

The ENCODE article on Wikipedia is a pretty good example of how to write a science article. Unfortunately, there are a few issues that will ...

Here's a recent video podcast (Aug. 23, 1022) from the Institute for Creation Research (sic). It features an interview with Dr. Jeff To...

ENCODE has mostly abandoned it's definition of function based on biochemical activity and replaced it with "candidate" functio...

The Wikipedia article on the Human genome contained a reference that I had not seen before. "Finally DNA that is deleterious to th...

A recent paper in Nature claims that 75% of synonymous mutations reduce fitness in yeast. The results were challenged (refuted?) ten weeks ...

NPR tweeted out a summary of the new CDC (United States) guidelines on COVID-19. The figure was posted under the name of Dr. Marcus Plescia,...

There has been an enormous expansion of papers on cancer and many of them make a connection with a particular human gene. A recent note in T...

The most important issue in alternative splicing, in my opinion, is whether splice variants are due to splicing errors (= junk RNA) or wheth...

Just before getting banned from Wikipedia , I was about to deal with a claim on the Intergenic region article. I had already fixed most of ...