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Is This For Real? Michael Eisen Goes Turncoat
Why I, a founder of PLOS, am forsaking open access By Michael Eisen | Published: April 1, 2014 PLEASE NOTE BEFORE YOU READ THIS THAT IT WAS WRITTEN FOR APRIL FOOLS DAY ON DR. EISEN’S WEBSITE!!! I co-founded the Public Library of Science (PLOS) in 2002 because I believed deeply that the open a[...]
Radical Republicans: Inhofe
Faith-based reasoning is intrinsically anti-science: U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is a staunch critic of climate science and in line to become one of America’s most powerful voices on environmental policies. Inhofe is expected to chair the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Jesus’ thumb found .. Pope declares it is a holy relic!
A miracle has occurred! Last year Rio’s iconic Christ statue lost its right thumb tip to a lightning strike. Father Joseph of the Archdiocese of Rio, the church responsible for managing the statue, said then that repairs could be made using a stock of the same stone originally used to [...]
February 7th, 2015 - 2:03 am § in Science
Wierd Scient(ists)
Michael Mosley infests himself with tapeworms The moment Michael Mosley discovered a tapeworm living inside him BBC TV presenter Dr Michael Mosley has infected himself with a number of parasites in an effort to understand how they affect the human body. He swallowed tapeworm cysts, stuck a leech on [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: In the beginning there were Adam, Eve, Ngbo, Perin, Sillia, Ghe, Huang, Uman, Preter, Thym, Kal El, Thoru, Brent, Miter, Jnaet, Janus. Kasi, Chooma, Rven,Avrum, Moseh, Sara, kGhila, Juano, Wall, Sun, Bulgo, Kim, Huang, PBetu, ………………………………………………,
How big was the human population bottleneck? Another staple of theology refuted. September 18, 2011 – 7:13 am A paper in Nature by Heng Li and Richard Durbin contains estimates of the “effective population size” of our ancestors at different points in evolutionary time. (Effective population [...]
January 22nd, 2015 - 1:02 am § in Science
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: So .. what did Adam and Eve Look Like?
Insights from DNA studies of Khoe-San … a discussion on this South African blog talks about the genetic complexity of the Ksan, the “hottentots” who were almost extinguished by the Dutch settlers of South Africa. Today we know from modern genetics that that the Khoe-San are the m[...]
Radical Republicans: Rubio is not a scinewtist so he heads Science Ctee.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was appointed chair of the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard last week, a subsidiary to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee that will be headed by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). Rubio is among many Republicans who have deferred t[...]
DRUDGE AGREES .. Climate Change Real!
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