“Phraud” that Dwarfs Climategate?
Yes, according to Anthony Watts.
Heard in the marketplace: David Limbaugh
Fine tuning of the universe
See also: Copernicus, you are not going to believe who is using your name. Or how.
Is there really no physics that is above science?
Very different species have very similar genes
DNA’s scissors’ lock mechanism
Vid: On the dynamic instability of the microtubule
June 2014: Events that made a difference to ID
Atheists try their hand at writing Ten Commandments
New atheist neuroscientist Sam Harris trashes genome mapper Francis Collins again already
David Warren on the smallness of the large
Why is Richard Dawkins a “passionate anti-Darwinian when it comes to politics”
Remembering Rameses
I have greatly enjoyed reading three recent posts on memory by Professor Michael Egnor, an accomplished neurosurgeon with more than 20 years’ experience. In his first post, Recalling Nana’s Face: Does Your Brain Store Memories?, Professor Egnor criticized what he regards as two pernicious myths regarding memory: first, the popular notion that the brain stores actual memories themselves; and second, the more sophisticated (but equally mistaken) notion that what the brain stores is coded information which enables us to retrieve memories at will. Neurologist and skeptic Dr. Steven Novella, who is an assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine, published a reply, accusing Dr. Egnor of faulty reasoning – a claim echoed by Dr. P.Z. Myers on his blog. Read More ›