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                                    Strolling with a skeptical biochemist

Thursday, October 03, 2024

Intelligent Design Creationists made up a fake march of progress illustration

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Everyone is familiar with the typical March of Progress figures that are often used to illustrate evolution. However, most people don't...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Jonathan Wells (1942 - 2024)

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Johnathan Wells died recently. He was a well-known Intelligent Design Creationist and that's why Evolution News (sic) is eulogizing hi...
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Friday, September 27, 2024

John Mattick's seminar at the University of Toronto

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I just learned that John Mattick gave a seminar this morning at the Department of Cell & Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. U...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

On the evolution of the glycolytic pathway (glycolysis)

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Jonathan McLatchie has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Newcastle University (UK) and he is currently "resident biologist" and a...
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Friday, September 20, 2024

Should Scientific American endorse United States political candidates?

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Scientific American has endorsed Kamala Harris , a candidate for president of the United States. I think this is a mistake and so do many o...
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Monday, September 09, 2024

The DNA papers

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The DNA papers is a series of podcasts on the discovery that DNA is the source of genetic information. Each podcast is a discussion among e...
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Sunday, September 01, 2024

Scite Assistant (AI) answers the question "How much of the human genome consist of junk DNA?"

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Scite Assistant is billed as "your AI research partner" and as "ChatGPT for researchers." It's supposed to draw on ...
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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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