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Thursday, August 29, 2024

The New York Times questions for Kamala Harris: Foreign Policy

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The first two posts of this series cover 11 of the 21 questions that The New York Times wants to ask Kamala Harris. [ The New York Times ha...
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The New York Times questions for Kamala Harris: Social Issues

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In the first post of this series, I covered the reasons why Republicans want the media to attack Kamala Harris on specific policy issues and...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

The New York Times has 21 questions for Kamala Harris (and Trump?)

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I am not an American but I find American politics fascinating. I believe that presidential elections are part of a larger culture war with D...
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Sunday, August 25, 2024

Some transcription factors can be both activators and repressors! Textbooks have been saying this for decades

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This is another post about a bad press release based on a lack of knowledge of the history of the field. Here's the press release ...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Is the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science spreading misinformation?

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The Teacher Institute for Evolutonary Science (TIES) is an organization dedicated to helping teachers explain evolution. A good teac...
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Monday, August 12, 2024

Zach Hancock explains junk DNA

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Zach Hancock is a postdoc in ecology & evoluvionary biology at the University of Michigan. He has a YouTube channel with several thousa...
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Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Is Casey Luskin lying about junk DNA or is he just stupid?

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I'm going to address a recent article by Casey Luskin on Evolution News (sic) and a podcast on a Current Topics in Science podcast pro...
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Sunday, July 14, 2024

Bastille Day 2024

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Today is the Fête 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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Friday, July 12, 2024

My ancestor's house in New Amsterdam (1655)

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This is the 400th anniversary of the founding of New Amsterdam by Dutch settlers. The map shows what the city looked like in 1660, a few yea...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2024

Jerry Coyne changes his mind about the lab leak conspiracy theory and now rejects it

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Jerry Coyne was initially convinced by Alina Chan's arguments in favor of the lab leak conspiracy theory concerning the origin of SARS-C...
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The Scientific Theory of Intelligent Design

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Everything that's happening in the world today is very depressing but there's at least one bright spot. The Intelligent Design Creat...
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Sunday, June 23, 2024

"Cancer Virus Hunters" by Gregory J. Morgan

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That seven Nobel Prizes were awarded directly or indirectly for work in tumor virology illustrates the impact of the field on biomedic...
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Friday, June 21, 2024

"Enlightened" scientist at the University of Colorado busts the myth that all non-coding DNA is junk!

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We've known for 60 years that some non-coding DNA has a function but the latest generation of scientists thinks this was only discovered...
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Thursday, June 20, 2024

Which first commandment do Louisiana school children have to obey?

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The government of the state of Louisiana (USA) has just passed a law that requires ten commandments to be posted in every classroom of every...
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Fauci claims (incorrectly) that the lab leak conspiracy theory is not a conspiracy theory

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Here's Fauci being interviewed on MSNBC as part of his book promotion tour (see below). He's asked about the lab leak conspiracy the...
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