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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, September 17, 2012
Stephen Jay Gould and Sydney Brenner Agree on Junk DNA
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It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Stephen Jay Gould. I'm also a big fan of Sydney Brenner . Here's Gould writing in The S...
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Gould on Darwinism and Nonadaptive Change
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Some people have trouble understanding the difference between Darwinism and modern evolutionary theory. In spite of the fact that he has b...
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Monday's Molecule #186
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Last week's molecules were the four common nuleosides in DNA [ Monday's Molecule #185 ]. The winner was Matt Talarico. This week I...
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Read What Mike White Has to Say About ENCODE and Junk DNA
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One of the good things to come out of this ENCODE/junk DNA fiasco is that I've discovered a number of excellent scientists who aren'...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
How Do Intelligent Design Creationists Define "Creationism"?
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David Klinghoffer showed up in the comments on James Shapiro Claims Credit for Predicting That Junk DNA Is Actually Part of a "highly s...
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Does the Central Dogma Still Stand?
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Lots of people don't understand the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology and that's probably why there are so many articles announcing...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Groupthink Science And That 'Junk DNA'
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The IDiots (e.g. Tom Bethell) over at Evolution News & Views are gloating about a comment made on The Wall Street Journal website [ Wh...
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James Shapiro Claims Credit for Predicting That Junk DNA Is Actually Part of a "highly sophisticated information storage organelle"
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Do you remember James Shaprio? He's the University of Chicago scientist who claims to have discovered a new theory of evolution in his b...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
ENCODE/Junk DNA Fiasco: The IDiots Don't Like Me
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Casey Luskin has devoted an entire post to discussing my views on junk DNA. I'm flattered. Read it at: What an Evolution Advocate's ...
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ENCODE/Junk DNA Fiasco: John Timmer Gets It Right!
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John Timmer is the science editor at Ars Technica . Yesterday he published the best analysis of the ENCODE/junk DNA fiasco that any science ...
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Monday's Molecule #185
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Last week's molecule was warfarin, a rat poison with another role [ Monday's Molecule #184 ]. The winner was Matt McFarlane. This ...
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The Story of You: Encode and the human genome – video
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This is really quite incredible. I don't think I've seen anything like it in my lifetime. Two private for-profit companies, illumi...
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Science
Writes Eulogy for Junk DNA
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Elizabeth Pennisi is a science writer for Science , the premiere American science journal. She's been writing about "dark matter&qu...
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Was ENCODE Worth It?
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Michael Eisen is in a good position to ask whether the $200,000,000 spent on the ENCODE project was worth the money: Blinded by Big Science:...
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Sunday, September 09, 2012
The Random Genome Project
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Sean Eddy is a old—well not too old—talk.origins fan. (Hi Sean!). Because he's had all that training in how to think correctly, he get...
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