Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, September 30, 2013
The Problems With
The Selfish Gene
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Lots of people fail to understand that the "selfish gene" is a metaphor. They criticize Richard Dawkins for promoting the idea tha...
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Monday's Molecule #217
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Last week's molecule was the 5′ cap structure on eukaryotic mRNA. Lot's of people got it right. The winners were Mark Sturtevant and...
Friday, September 27, 2013
Dark Matter Is Real, Not Just Noise or Junk
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UPDATE: The title is facetious. I don't believe for one second that most so-called "dark matter" has a function. In fact, the...
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The Extraordinary Human Epigenome
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We learned a lot about genes and gene expression in the second half of the 20th century. We learned that genes are transcribed and we have a...
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Transcription Initiation Sites: Do You Think This Is Reasonable?
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I'm interested in how scientists read the scientific literature and in how they distinguish good science from bad science. I know that w...
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Thursday, September 26, 2013
Stephen Meyer Says That Constant Mutation Rates Are a "Questionable Assumption"
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Stephen Meyer is trying to make the case that the primitive animals of the Cambrian explosion really did arise suddenly as fully formed and ...
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2013 Toronto Science Festival
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The University of Toronto is sponsoring a "science" festival with three talks tomorrow and Saturday. You have to buy tickets at: ...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Hypocrisy
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Chris DiCarlo talked about fallacies in our class today. We're trying to teach students how to recognize the most important logical fall...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
An "Atheist" Defends Intelligent Design Creationism
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Bradley Monton is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. On his website he says he specializ...
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Monday, September 23, 2013
Monday's Molecule #216
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Last week's molecules were guanine and adenine. Everyone should have known these structures but only undergraduate Zhimeng Yu got it rig...
Saturday, September 21, 2013
My American Dialect
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I finally got to take the quiz at Dialect Quiz & Survey . The server is often overloaded and answering the 140 questions takes more than...
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Do the IDiots Really Know What Evidence Looks Like?
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I've been dealing with Intelligent Design Creationists for over twenty years. I've spent a lot of time addressing their scientific m...
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Why Are IDiots So Nasty?
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You've probably noticed that in addition to being stupid most IDiots are not very respectful of scientists (i.e. Darwinists). William J ...
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IDiots Love Epigenetics
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I read everything posted on Uncommon Descent and Evolution News & Views . These are the most important blogs for learning about Intelli...
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Friday, September 20, 2013
Stephen Meyer Says Molecular Data Must Be Wrong Because Different Genes Evolve at Different Rates
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Stephen Meyer is promoting the idea that God made all the various types of animals over a short period of time about 530 million years ago. ...
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