Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, December 09, 2013
Razib Khan doesn't like Gould and doesn't like new-fangled ideas like "neutralism" and "random genetic drift"
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The article by David Dobbs [ Die, selfish gene, die ] has stirred up a lot of biologists. Some of them (Coyne, Dawkins) pointed out why Davi...
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Monday's Molecule #226
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Last week's molecule was sucrose 6-phosphate or α- D -glucopyranosyl-(1→2)-β -D -fructofuranoside 6-phosphate [ Monday's Molecule #2...
Sunday, December 08, 2013
Steven Pinker defends "neo-Darwinism," whatever that is
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Jerry Coyne posted a couple of tweets (see below) from Steven Pinker (photo) at Dawkins responds to Dobbs . We shouldn't be surprised ...
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Friday, December 06, 2013
Valley girl talk
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Last summer we took a short drive through the San Fernando Valley on our way from Thousand Oaks to Griffith Park. I happened to mention &quo...
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Have you ever seen the Grand Canyon? Did it make you believe in god?
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Last year we took a helicopter ride to the Grand Canyon [ The Magic Canyon Ride ]. None of us converted to Christianity or any other religio...
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Die, selfish gene, die!
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"Die, selfish gene, die!" is the provocative title of an article by science writer David Dobbs [ Die, selfish gene die! ]. Dobbs...
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Do you understand this
Nature
paper on transcription factor binding in different mouse strains?
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I've published a few papers on the regulation of transcription of a mouse gene and students in my lab have done the standard promoter-ba...
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Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Jason Rosenhouse defends Chris Mooney
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Jason Rosenhouse read Chris Mooney's article on 7 Reasons Why It's Easier for Humans to Believe in God Than Evolution and liked it....
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Cherry picking and the safety of low level electromagnetic radiation
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While I was researching the previous article on the safety of GM foods, I came across the website of Magda Havas. Here's how she describ...
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Is there any reliable scientific evidence that genetically modified food poses a health risk?
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I recently had a discussion about the safety of food derived from genetically modified organisms. My opponent, whose identity I will conceal...
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Michael Eisen defends
23andMe
against the FDA
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The US Food and Drug Administration has asked 23andMe to stop marketing their genetic test product. The company will test your DNA for the ...
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Tuesday, December 03, 2013
How do creationists interpret Lenski's long-term evolution experiment?
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Lenski's long-term evolution experiment has resulted in dozens of publications in high quality journals. It has led to significant insig...
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Lenski's long-term evolution experiment: the evolution of bacteria that can use citrate as a carbon source
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Richard Lenski set up twelve flasks of E. coli B back in 1988. They were allowed to grow overnight in minimal medium containing 139μM gluco...
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Monday, December 02, 2013
Ask a stupid question ... can anyone guess the answer?
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I just love the IDiots. They never cease to amaze, and amuse, me. Here's the latest from David Klinghofer at: Intelligent Design as an O...
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Was Louis Agassiz better in the concrete?
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Back in the nineteenth century (i.e. more than one hundred years ago) there was a biologist named Louis Agassiz who didn't like Darwin...
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