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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, June 09, 2021
Let's analyze the Newsweek lab leak conspiracy theory article
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Lots of people have been sucked in to the lab leak conspiracy theory based on reporting in newspapers and magazines. One of the widely-cited...
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Saturday, June 05, 2021
Real scientists discuss the lab leak conspiracy theory
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Here's an interesting video where the hosts of "This Week in Virology" (Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler) d...
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Monday, May 31, 2021
Nessa Carey talks about epigenetics
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Nessa Carey wrote a horribe book about junk DNA where she completely misunderstood the science. It's one of many examples of bad science...
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Sunday, May 30, 2021
Telomere-to-telomere sequencing of a complete human genome
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Here's a paper that has recently been posted on the preprint server bioRxiv. Nurk et al. (2021) The complete sequence of a human gen...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
The SARS-CoV-2 reference genome
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Chinese scientists isolated virus particles from a patient admitted to hospital on December 26, 2019 in Wuhan, China. The RNA genome was seq...
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Monday, May 10, 2021
MIT Professor Rick Young doesn't understand junk DNA
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Richard ("Rick") Young is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Whitehead Insti...
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Saturday, May 08, 2021
World Health Organization (WHO) report on the natural origin theory of SARS-CoV-2
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The origin of SARS-Cov-2 is a hot topic these days. As far as I can tell, the consensus view among the experts is that the ancestor is from ...
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Friday, May 07, 2021
More misinformation about junk DNA: this time it's in American Scientist
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Emily Mortola and Manyuan Long have just published an article in American Scientist about Turning Junk into Us: How Genes Are Born . The ar...
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World Health Organization (WHO) report on the lab leak conspiracy theory
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There's been a lot of talk about the possibility that SAR-CoV-2 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and accidentally escaped, ...
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Wednesday, May 05, 2021
Lab leak conspiracy theory rears its ugly head again: this time it's Nicholas Wade of the New York Times
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Nicholas Wade used to be a serious science writer but he lost that title many years ago when he proved that he was incapable of distinguish...
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Monday, May 03, 2021
More illusions/delusions of James Shapiro and Denis Noble
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It was just a few weeks ago that I discussed short articles by Denis Noble and James Shapiro that were published in the journal Biosemiotics...
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