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Evolution of Biological Information: HIV Evolution

What Christoph Adami’s results actually show is that when HIV is subjected to the protease inhibitors, the sequence variability increases. Read More ›
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Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Read More ›
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“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Read More ›
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California Research Experiments on People with “Life-Shortening” Conditions

Human beings, regardless of how sick they are or how long they are expected to live, should never be considered less worthy of protection than are animals. Read More ›
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Former CDC Director: What Worked, What Didn’t, with Covid

Wesley J. Smith interviewed Robert R. Redfield on the public health disasters brought on by Covid and the reasons for the loss of trust in public health. Read More ›
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Adult Stem-Cell Cure for HIV?

A “consensus science” that seeks to stifle open scientific inquiry and heterodox advocacy harms the scientific quest for truth. Read More ›
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Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: The Edge of Evolution

I wonder whether Farina has in fact read Behe’s book for himself, or whether he is relying upon others, such as Nathan Lents. Read More ›
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Manipulating Molecules: Combining Info + Nano for Better Medicine

“Oscar Wilde said nature imitates art,” Meyer said. And today we’re going to see that “technology is able to imitate and even in some ways, improve on nature.” Read More ›
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Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›
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#4 Story of 2020: Evolution, Design, and COVID-19

The waves may be huge and the surface roiling, but the deeper waters continue as they always have, essentially undisturbed. Read More ›

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