Friday, April 6, 2012

Novel mutations = novel conclusions?

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As reported in the NYT , the results of three new studies, published (here, here , and here ) this week in Nature on the genetics of autis...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Will there be an exam in this course (of treatment)?

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Perhaps you saw the news yesterday that all those medical tests that were supposed to be so important for our health now aren't?  This i...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The Big Scientist Theory of Science

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Samson , alpha male gorilla in Givskud Zoo The Great, or Big Man Theory of History posits that the course of history is determined by th...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Anything goes -- the soft sciences abandon any pretense of method

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A piece in the Sunday New York Times, called "Overcoming 'Physics Envy' ", by Kevin Clarke and David Primo, political sc...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Ho hum, you're SO close to average!

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So a new study confirms (we would claim) what we have been saying for many years,  repeatedly on MT, and in print before it was popular to s...

News of the Century: Genes Prove Einstein wrong, change faster than neutrinos!

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Why bother arguing whether the speed of a neutrino is faster than the supposed upper limit to speed, that of light?  The measurements are so...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

46th Carnival of Evolution is up

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The April Carnival of Evolution is up over at Synthetic Daisies, and it's full to overflowing.  Trees, trees, trees ... and a crossword...