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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking

A creationist asks: What came first?

Here’s part 2 of my audience participation exercise. This is a continuation of my audience participation/open thread set of posts for today. It’s called “list the creationist fallacies.” This post is part 2 of this endeavor. This short video, called Which came first, the DNA or the protein?, is the target. Your mission, should you […]

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking

A creationist on where the genetic code came from

Busy, busy, busy last night and all day today until late, namely because I’m out of town on business. My schedule has been packed, and I won’t be home until late. There’s no time to post one of my characteristic pearls of verbosity. So what do I do when this happens? Be grateful that YouTube […]

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Medicine Science

Sweating to the NIH paylines

Like many biomedical investigators, I’ve been sweating it over the resubmission of an R01 grant my collaborator and I worked furiously on and submitted on November 1. He’s the principal investigator, but I’m a coinvestigator with 25% effort; I also wrote one of the three specific aims and most of another, the justification for animal […]

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery

Medicine and Evolution, part 8: Two major medical misconceptions about evolution parroted by a Professor of Neurosurgery

I’m getting really, really tired of this. You’ve all read my rants at the propensity of surgeons who clearly don’t have clue one about evolutionary theory spouting off ignorantly about the alleged shortcomings of evolution as a theory while either explicitly or implicitly promoting the pseudoscience of “intelligent design” creationism. I don’t think I have […]

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Humor Medicine Science

Science merit badges for Orac!

This one’s been floating around the science blogosphere for about a week or two now. I tried to resist its pull, but finally I have given in and decided that, if you’ve got it, flaunt it, baby! In any case, I’m talking about a bunch of merit badges for scientists (a.k.a. “The Order of Science […]