Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Twenty "sciencey" questions for Trump and Clinton
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ScienceDebate.org is a group that wants a "science" debate between Presidential candidates in the upcoming American election. That...
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Thursday, August 11, 2016
A refreshing admission on
Uncommon Descent
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Some of us have been debating Intelligent Design Creationists for many years. Some of us have even visited the creationist blogs like Uncomm...
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Thursday, August 04, 2016
This anti-science creationist could be Vice-President of the United States of America
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Thanks to PZ Myers for digging up this speech by Mike Pence in the House of Representatives [ Mike Pence, creationist ]. I think Pence is tr...
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Why are academics such bad writers?
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Not all academics are bad writers but the exceptions are few and far between. Several recent articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education ...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2016
More junk science in
Science
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The latest issue of the journal Science (Aug. 1, 2016) has an article on a recent paper by Aires et al. (2016) published in Developmental ...
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Siddhartha Mukherjee tries to correct his book
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There are lots of things wrong with Mukherjee's best-selling book The Gene . I've listed a few things that I know about [ What is a ...
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The most important thing about nature according to Bill Martin
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My friend and colleague, Alex Palazzo, alerted me to an interview of Bill Martin published in the July 11, 2016 issue of Current Biology [...
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Thursday, July 28, 2016
You are junk
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There's an article about junk DNA in the latest issue of New Scientist (July 27, 2016) [ You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that mak...
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False history and the number of genes: 2016
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There's an article about junk DNA in the latest issue of New Scientist . The title is: You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make y...
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What is "THE" theory of evolution?
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I wish people would stop referring to "THE" Theory of Evolution. What they really mean, of course, is "The Theory of Natural ...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
The seven biggest problems in science
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Here's an interesting article about the biggest problems in (American) science: The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 ...
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Bastille Day
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Today is the FĂȘte Nationale in France known also as "le quatorze juillet" or Bastille Day . This is the day in 1789 when French ci...
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Monday, July 11, 2016
A genetics professor who rejects junk DNA
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Praveen Sethupathy is a genetics professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. He explains why he is...
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Science journal tries to fix problems with transparency and trustworthiness
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The editors of Science recognize that they have a problem. They aren't very transparent or trustworthy. This is true. These same editor...
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Nature journal tries to fix the problem of a scientific literature that's too complex to understand
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I recently posted some thoughts on the complexity of the scientific literature noting that many papers are simply too difficult to understan...
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