I attended and spoke at a meeting in Erzurum in eastern Turkey on May 7. Suppose I told you the topic of the meeting was “Partial Differential Equations in Geophysical Modeling,” and then I added, since the meeting was in Turkey, the majority of the speakers and attendees were Muslim. You would say, the religious […]
Month: May 2014
Gravitational waves bust: Rob Sheldon called that one right
America will always be exceptional. But will its science always be so?
A liberating voice on the feathered dragons
Evolution: Education and Outreach is usually a disappointment. The journal could do with more philosophically savvy writers and more critical reviewers. The various contributions provide very little evidence that they understand Kuhn’s thesis about the way science develops. Most of the authors are working in a silo and fail to understand anyone who operates outside […]
There isn’t evidence for gravitational waves, let alone big claims – Nature
Well, there’s a multiverse that just won’t fly. A chicken will fly first. In fact, a chicken will fly first class.
Does consciousness not involve quantum principles?
But Darwinism isn’t a science. Darwinism is a belief system parasitizing the history of life.
The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve is Actually Really Complex
In Charles Darwin’s one long argument against final causes, teleology, separate creation, independent creation or as he sometimes simply put it, the “ordinary view,” he complained, among other things, that notions of independent creation were tantamount to rejecting “a real for an unreal, or at least for an unknown, cause.” Furthermore, separate and innumerable acts […]
Peer review: All the retractions fit to print
Publish and perish, it seems.
Central Dogma: Missing, and presumed dead
Researchers: What these efforts show is that it’s a two-way road—proteomics can be used to annotate the genome.
Proteome “more complex than previously thought”
Naw. Get outta here. Can’t be. By the way, how come nothing is ever less complex than previously thought? A law of nature?
The importance of cell membranes
Membrane patterns carry ontogenetic information that is not specified by DNA.
Horizontal gene transfer raises merry hell with bacterial classifications
“effectively decouples resistomes from phylogeny”
140 pseudogenes found expressed in humans
Talk about The Myth of Junk DNA.
Our deepest theories in science are wrong?
You can tell people are discombobbed when they clutch onto a new theory that hasn’t even passed peer review.
A plea to recognize amateur paleontology
Well, in the age of Darwin’s Doubt vs. the tenured fossil in the prof’s chair, not everyone loses if challenging new fossils disappear.
Scientists dismiss philosophers? Evo psych is the answer, says Pigliucci
Feel you learned anything? Us neither. If this is the best evo psych can do (and it is), go back to despising philosophy.