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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, July 24, 2009
How to deal with scientists who cheat
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What do you do when a scientists (PI, post-doc, graduate student) is caught falsifying data? Should they be expelled from the community, f...
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Cody Cobb's Visit
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We had a fun visit with Cody Cobb the other day when he flew up to Toronto for a free lunch [ Lunch with a winner ]. I mentioned that Cody...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Richard Dawkins Award Goes to Bill Maher
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Atheist Alliance International is an organization that gives out The Richard Dawkins Award each year. The criteria, according to Wikipedi...
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Dawkins, Tyson, Druyan, Stenger
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This panel discussion took place recently in November 2007 at the Center of Inquiry in New York. The participants are Richard Dawkins, Ne...
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The Problem with Science Journalism
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There are many problems with science journalism these days. One of the most important problems is that their sources (scientists) are high...
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Shona Holmes and Canadian Health Care
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Shona Holmes is a Canadian citizen. She suffered from a number of symptoms including dizziness and loss of vision. Her family doctor in Ca...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The Positive Case for Intelligent Design Creationism?
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In biology, when you encounter something that has the superficial appearance of design there are two possible explanations. Either it evol...
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Who goes in the sack?
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Dara Ó Briain tells us who he would put in a big sack and what he would do with them ... [Hat Tip: Pharyngula ]
Lunch with a winner
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Cody Cobb was the winner of Monday's Molecule #129 . He lives in New Jersey where he is about to start graduate school at Rutgers. If ...
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The New Seven Wonders of Nature
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There are 28 finalists in the running for the New 7 Wonders of Nature. You can see the list here . Guess who didn't make the cut? Niag...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Direction and Purpose in Evolution
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If you put two people together who believe that natural selection is the only important mechanism of evolution and that humans are the onl...
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Monday's Molecule #130: Winner?
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The "molecule" is Rous Sarcoma Virus or RSV. It's a retrovirus , specifically an alpharetrovirus . Other types of retrovirus...
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What Is Accommodationism?
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Are you uninterested in the debate about accommodationism but secretly want to know what it's all about? Here's a brief summary th...
Questioning the Tree of Life
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I'm going to Halifax NS (Canada) next week to attend a very exciting conference with a catchy title: Questioning the Tree of life . Th...
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Nobel Laureates: J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989 "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes" J. Michael B...
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