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Denyse O'Leary
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March 29, 2022
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Cell biology
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Our cells even have tentacles

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March 29, 2022
Cell biology
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So the little blobs aren’t nearly as helpless, let alone simple, as they have sometimes been made out to be. It’s quite the little world in there. Unfortunately, some of the cells that probably get a lot of use out of their filapodia are cancer cells. But maybe, the researchers suggest, that fact points to new treatment methods. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 29, 2022
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Academic Freedom
Humor
Intelligent Design
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From the Babylon Bee (still in Twitter jail)

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March 29, 2022
Academic Freedom, Humor, Intelligent Design
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This stuff is not our usual line of coverage. But in these strange times — when Woke American billionaires tell us all when we may and may not laugh — you might be missing the Bee’s sendup of some of the most asinine upperclassmen in Western world history. So here’s your fix. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 29, 2022
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Origin of life: But how do cells come to have “borders” at all?

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March 29, 2022
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Inanimate objects don’t have “borders” because they need not defend themselves against anything. Boulders don’t care if they end up as sand. Having a membrane at all suggests that something is different about life that can’t be explained by the various “It all just happened” scenarios we often hear about how life got started. How did life forms decide they wanted to protect themselves? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 29, 2022
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Design inference
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Shades of “junk DNA”? Tiny bubbles are NOT “cellular debris”

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March 29, 2022
Design inference, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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EVs, which are found in human fluids including urine and blood, may be used in liquid biopsies as biomarkers for disease because healthy and sick cells package different EV cargo. It’s getting harder all the time to find genuine junk in the human body. Just as well that Nathan Lents, author of Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, probably isn't listening. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 29, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
Philosophy
Science
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How the COVID pandemic showed that evidence-based medicine is — at present — an illusion

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March 29, 2022
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
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Malone: The release into the public domain of previously confidential pharmaceutical industry documents has given the medical community valuable insight into the degree to which industry sponsored clinical trials are misrepresented. Until this problem is corrected, evidence based medicine will remain an illusion. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 28, 2022
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Why punctuated equilibrium did not rescue modern evolutionary theory

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March 28, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Re Stephen Jay Gould returning to traditional Darwinism: Didn’t E. O. Wilson try escaping the vice grip of Darwinism with “group selection” and then dramatically returning to full orthodoxy, leaving many dozens of supporters stranded? Complete academy acceptance is a powerful motivator… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 28, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience
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So now there are two brains in our bodies that “just somehow evolved”

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March 28, 2022
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience
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The gut nervous system has come to be called a “second brain.” No wonder that, in order to account for all this specified complexity, evolutionary biologists must elevate natural selection into some form of magic, then persecute non-believers. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 27, 2022
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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At Mind Matters News: Unexplained — maybe unexplainable — numbers control the universe

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March 27, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Nobelist Wolfgang Pauli (1945) is said to have remarked, “When I die, my first question to the devil will be: What is the meaning of the fine structure constant?” At any rate, he thought about it a great deal during his life. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 26, 2022
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Intelligent Design
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Sabine Hossenfelder on experiments that could prove Einstein wrong

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March 26, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Significantly, no experiment could prove Darwin wrong. But that’s not because he’s right; it’s because Darwinism has become a cultural way of seeing the world and, as such, isn’t usually testable. Read More ›