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This is the 400th anniversary of the founding of New Amsterdam by Dutch settlers. The map shows what the city looked like in 1660, a few yea...

Jerry Coyne was initially convinced by Alina Chan's arguments in favor of the lab leak conspiracy theory concerning the origin of SARS-C...

Everything that's happening in the world today is very depressing but there's at least one bright spot. The Intelligent Design Creat...

That seven Nobel Prizes were awarded directly or indirectly for work in tumor virology illustrates the impact of the field on biomedic...

We've known for 60 years that some non-coding DNA has a function but the latest generation of scientists thinks this was only discovered...

The government of the state of Louisiana (USA) has just passed a law that requires ten commandments to be posted in every classroom of every...

Here's Fauci being interviewed on MSNBC as part of his book promotion tour (see below). He's asked about the lab leak conspiracy the...

This post is just a place-holder for an article that I've already shared on Facebook. I greatly appreciate the fact that Orac referrd to...

This is a Reuters report about misinformation spread by the United States military in order to discredit China's Sinovac vaccine. It was...

On June 3, 2024,the New York Times published an opinion piece by Alina Chan in which she promoted the lab leak conspiracy theory about the ...

Tom Cech won a Nobel Prize for discovering one example of a catalytic RNA. He recently published an article in the New York Times extolling...

This year is the 80th anniversary of D-Day—the day British, Canadian, and American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in World War II....

Scientists have been actively investigating the origin of SARS-CoV-2 for the past four years. The evidence strongly favors early transmissi...

Telomeres are repetitive DNA sequences at the ends of chromosomes. In humans, the repeat sequence is TTAGGG. The purpose of telomeres is to ...

The Occupy for Palestine protestors have occupied part of the campus of the University of Toronto. The protestors are making two demands on ...