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COVID-19

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 30, 2021
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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Why has Nature started endorsing violent Woke politics?

Denyse O'Leary
April 30, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
First response: Stuff it. Absolutely. Stuff it. Given the way governments goofed big time throughout the pandemic, doubt about vaccines is a reasonable reaction, if not a correct one. A recent poll shows that nearly half of the vaccine doubters are worried about side effects. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 28, 2021
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Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
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Interesting finding: COVID-19 populations show high convergent evolution

Denyse O'Leary
April 28, 2021
Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
Researchers: We find that two particular mutation rates, G →U and C →U, are similarly elevated and considerably higher than all other mutation rates, causing the majority of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, and are possibly the result of APOBEC and ROS activity. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 13, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Media, Medicine, Naturalism
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“Follow the science” is becoming a jibe in the age of COVID panic

Denyse O'Leary
April 13, 2021
Intelligent Design, Media, Medicine, Naturalism
At ACSH: Rather shamelessly, the Washington Post has also offered tips to stop yourself from spreading “misinformation.” And the Guardian has even recommended “10 ideas to rebuild our broken internet.” Let's add an eleventh: take your own advice and stop running sloppy stories because they attract eyeballs. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 4, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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US Prez accuses Texas and Mississippi governors of “Neanderthal thinking”

Denyse O'Leary
March 4, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
How about New York governor Cuomo packing nursing homes with COVID patients, which resulted in thousands of deaths? Now that we have channelled Neanderthal man anyway, does he have an opinion on that? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 21, 2020
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Genomics, Intelligent Design
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“Genes within genes” may contribute to COVID-19’s pandemic potential

Denyse O'Leary
November 21, 2020
Genomics, Intelligent Design
Researcher: "Missing overlapping genes puts us in peril of overlooking important aspects of viral biology," said Nelson. "In terms of genome size, SARS-CoV-2 and its relatives are among the longest RNA viruses that exist. They are thus perhaps more prone to 'genomic trickery' than other RNA viruses." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 8, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Nature: Scientists “aghast” that Biden didn’t win a landslide in the US

Denyse O'Leary
November 8, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
It’s hard to understand why these people imagine that the Big Science response to COVID-19 would be viewed by many people as a success. Many people around the world have experienced it as one panicfest after another, featuring contradictory opinions on all sorts of things shouted at us from “the science.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 20, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Peer review
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One of those rare instances where science is self-correcting … Ioannidis is vindicated

Denyse O'Leary
October 20, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Peer review
Hey, that's good news. But what about all the people whose lives were turned upside down by the herd of stampeding buffalo otherwise known as our moral and intellectual superiors? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 18, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Religion, science, … and the religion of science facing COVID-19

Denyse O'Leary
October 18, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
In fact, during the COVID crisis, a great deal of the blather for science made no sense at all, a fact that is becoming more and more evident. People won't immediately give up believing in science as a result. Rather, they will begin to treat it as the superstition of the social elite. It doesn’t make sense and doesn’t need to. It is wisely got around wherever possible.That's not what science used to be but that;s what many policy decisions have made it. Read More ›