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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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Announcements

The 55th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: The Number of the Skeptic (or, EoR has your number)

The 55th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle has been posted at The Second Sight, and EoR has bowed to the higher energies of the universe in organising this edition based on the numerological vibrations of the submitters. Numerology is, of course, a science that has been proven by thousands of years of traditional use, dating […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Gotta have more woo in my medical school!

Another one has fallen. Yes, another prestigious medical school has given in. First I lamented the decline in basic science education in medical schools. Then, I lamented even more the infiltration of woo into the curricula of far too many medical schools, spurred on by patient demand, a desire for a nice, high profit cash-on-the-barrelhead […]

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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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Announcements Blogging

Noticed again…this time in a good way

Kristjan Wager points out to me that Respectiful Insolence was listed as the Blog of the Day by the L.A. Times on Monday. Oddly enough, I hadn’t noticed any traffic coming my way from the link…