Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
This is Steven Salzberg's blog on genomics, evolution, pseudoscience (GenoEvoPseudo), and other topics, including skepticism, open-access publishing, and free software. Here's where I can say what I really think about abuses and distortions of science, especially pseudoscience.
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May 13, 12 08:19AMCalico cats prefer Mother's Day Everyone knows that women have two X chromosomes, while men have just one. Instead of a second X, men have a Y chromosome. The X chromosome is far larger than Y with...
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May 08, 12 07:10AMCold cure manufacturers continue to push zinc as a cure, despite the lack of evidence. Today, the Washington Post reported, not for the first time, that taking zinc will shorten the duratio n...
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May 06, 12 01:52PMHow far can a human being fall and survive? Normally, not very far. People usually survive falls from a height of 20-25 feet (6-8 meters), but above that, things get very deadly very fast. nbsp...
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Apr 22, 12 11:59AMWow, no one saw this coming. The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 $1.4 million. T he...
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Apr 08, 12 10:13AMIt's a holiday weekend, and many of us will be eating chocolate, especially chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs. (Where does that come from, anyway? Bunnies don't lay eggs.) We don't real ly...
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Mar 24, 12 03:45PMHaving a cold is no fun. Sore throat, runny nose, general feeling of all-around blechiness. About the only good thing I can say about colds is that they don't last long, usually about a we ek...
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Mar 11, 12 08:36AMCover illustration for the forthcoming textbook by Carl Zimmer and Douglas Emlen This is a real photo. It's the cover for a new biology textbook by Carl Zimmer and Douglas Emlen. The phot o...
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Feb 25, 12 02:12PMThe anti-vaccination movement continues to grow, despite the retraction and thorough discrediting of the 1998 scientific study that spurred much of its growth. The stubborn persistence of anti-v axxers...
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Feb 10, 12 05:18AMWe all hope to get old one day. But if we do, our chances of getting Alzheimer's disease increase dramatically as we move into our 80s. As many as 50% of people over age 85 may be affected nbsp...
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Feb 05, 12 06:53AMAn edible FSM Those state legislators are meddling with science again. This time it's Indiana, trying to promote their religious views in public schools by dictating what science teachers wil l...
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