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                                    Strolling with a skeptical biochemist

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Science reviews a creationist book

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You can't get much more anti-science than a book about Adam and Eve. Nevertheless, Stephen Schaffner —a computational biologist at the B...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

They can smell dead people

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Dogs can be trained to detect fresh cadavers but can they detect bodies that have been buried for months or years? Can they detect places wh...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

The case for a natural origin of SARS-CoV-2

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Lots of people seem to be confused about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The investigating commit...
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Monday, October 25, 2021

Electron transport supercomplexes in the mitochondria

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The generation of ATP in mitochodrial membranes is driven by the energy from a protonmotive force caused by the movement of protons from a h...
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Characteristics of COVID-19 in the United States during 2020

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An interesting paper on COVID-19 infections in the USA during 2020 was recently published in Nature . The take-home lessons are: abou...
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Sunday, October 24, 2021

Style vs substance in science communication: The role of science writers in major science journals

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Science writers have always had articles published in the leading science journals such as Science and Nature but over the past few decade...
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Saturday, October 23, 2021

Style vs substance in science communication: The science writer perspective

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I want to address a recent article on science writing: When editors and scientists meet: communicating science without dumbing it down . The...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) spreads misinformation about junk DNA

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The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) is a pretigious society of workers in the field of molecular evolution. I am a member...
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Monday, September 27, 2021

The biggest mistake in the history of molecular biology (not!)

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The creationists are committed to proving that most of our genome is functional because otherwise the idea of an intelligent designer doesn...
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Monday, September 13, 2021

Most scientists dismiss the lab leak conspiracy theory

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A recent review in Science has the following subtitle, "Why most scientists say it's unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a la...
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Friday, September 10, 2021

21 experts support a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2

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Here's a link to a recent review on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 written by 21 scientists from seven different countries. They are all reco...
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Is the media finally realizing that they have been duped into promoting the lab leak conspiracy theory?

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I would like to think that the media will eventually wake up and recognize the science behind the origin of SARS-CoV-2. It overhelmingly sup...
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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Conversation with Massimo Pigliucci

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This is really worth one hour of your time. You will learn about knowledge and abduction and lots of other things.
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Friday, July 09, 2021

Mutation, Randomness, & Evolution

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I just received my copy of a book by Arlin Stoltzfus on mutation. I haven't finished reading it but I thought Sandwalk readers should k...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Richard Dawkins talks about the genetic code and information

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This is a video published a few weeks ago where Jon Perry interviews Richard Dawkins. Jon Perry is the author of animations posted on his we...
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