Author: MarkH
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More prediction of the past – from the future!
Casey Luskin is also celebrating the death of the “junk” DNA hypothesis over at Evolution News and Views. You see, a Wired magazine article has breathlessly reported what we’ve known for decades. And guess what? Just like Sal Cordova, Luskin has a really interesting view of the history of biology and the “junk” DNA timeline.…
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The Egnor Analogy
Michael Egnor is to “argument from analogy” as a fish is to __________. A. Fire B. Victorian Literature C. Mathematics D. Water Imagine scientists living on an isolated island who have developed sophisticated science and culture, with one exception: they deny that telecommunication is possible. For assorted reasons, they deny that the human voice can…
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The Crank HOWTO en espanol
La Corte de los Milagros translates the Crank HOWTO! I’m flattered. Thanks Martin.
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Sal Cordova Quote Mines Nature (I’m shocked!)
I just knew it. The second I read this abstract I just knew that the Uncommon Descent cranks would dust off their old “Junk DNA” harangue and suggest that if it wasn’t for them, no one would believe that all that non-coding DNA had a purpose. Sal Cordova obliged, and it’s the usual embarrassing misread…
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The end of the Alexander Cockburn saga
George Monbiot posts his last reply to Alexander Cockburn. Wisely, Monbiot has chosen not to continue arguing with a crank. At a certain point it’s always a lost cause. And considering Cockburn’s evidence one would be crazy to continue. It turns out, the sole-source of his rambling diatribe against all global warming science – the…
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Kilimanjaro and Global Warming
I’m surprised it took as long as a day for denialists like Patrick Michaels to gloat over the finding that the loss of the ice caps on Kilimanjaro – an example used by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth – has turned out to be
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Is there any idiot theory UD won’t credulously repeat?
Now it’s the “Rachel Carson killed millions” nonsense over at Uncommon Descent and it’s based upon this WSJ editorial from Dr. Zaramba, the health minister for Uganda. What’s really embarrassing is how they link the entire article and it’s clear they didn’t even read it. BarryA writes:
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Reprogramming adult cells into embryonic stem cells
As promised, I’m going through the three papers from last week about the re-programming of adult cells into an embryonic-like phenotype. Since it is three papers I’ll go through first what’s common to all three, and then what each group did special. First of all, let’s summarize the method one more time.
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Sopranos last episode
Anyone else want to venture a guess as to what that ending was about? To those who haven’t seen it – I’d avoid going below the fold – it will be a spoiler.
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A Bigot Surgeon General Nomination (part II)
Last week we discussed the nomination of Dr. James Holsinger to be Surgeon General of the United States, and our concerns considering his anti-gay views. Now Jim Burroway has done a thorough dissection of Holsinger’s attempt to use science to advocate for homophobic policies in his church and it’s about as skewed and cherry-picked as…