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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Bryony Graham: another scientist who writes about the junk DNA controversy without doing her homework
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I was searching for information about Craig Venter and his position on junk DNA when I stumbled upon this post by Bryony Graham: Why we stil...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
All about Craig
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The sequence of the human genome was announced on June 26, 2000 although the actual sequence wasn't published until a year later. There ...
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Massimo Pigliucci tries to defend accommodationism (again): result is predictable
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Massimo Pigliucci is an atheist who thinks that science and religion are compatible because they rule in different domains. He takes a very ...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016
Origin of de novo genes in humans
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We know quite a lot about the origin of new genes (Carvunis et al., 2012; Kaessman, 2010; Long et al., 2003; Long et al., 2013; Näsvall et a...
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Nelson Lau responds to my criticism of his comments about junk DNA
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I criticized Nelson Lau for comments he made about the junk DNA debate [ Brandeis professor demonstrates his ignorance about junk DNA ]. H...
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Saturday, January 16, 2016
Brandeis professor demonstrates his ignorance about junk DNA
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Judge Starling (Dan Graur) has alerted me to yet another young biologist who hasn't bothered to study the subject of genomes and junk DN...
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Christians against dinosaurs
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This is Kristen Auclair of Christians Against Dinosaurs . It is mind-boggling.
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I'm going to London!
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I've just registered for the Royal Society meeting on New trends in evolutionary biology: biological, philosophical and social science p...
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Friday, January 15, 2016
On the (false) significance of a liberal arts education
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Joshua Kim posted an article on Inside Higher Education last month (Dec. 8, 2015). The article described his answers to some questions he ...
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Thursday, January 14, 2016
Discussing the conflict between science and religion with Denis Alexander
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Model organisms and translational research
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Ewan Birney ( Genomic's Big Talker of ENCODE notoriety) has a new post called In defence of model organisms . He brings up two points...
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Rethinking medical education at the University of Toronto
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Watch two medical educators from my Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. They are being interviewed by Steve Paiken of The Age...
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Targets, arrows, and the lottery fallacy
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Sandwalk readers have been discussing the way Intelligent Design Creationists have been calculating probabilities [see Intelligent Design C...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2016
Intelligent Design Creationists are very confused about epigenetics
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I've been trying to figure out why Intelligent Design Creationists are so excited about epigenetics. They seem to think it's going t...
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Monday, January 04, 2016
Answering two questions from Vincent Torley
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Vincent Torley read a post by Jerry Coyne where Jerry wondered if Intelligent Design Creationism was in trouble because the Discovery Instit...
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