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Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Read More ›
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Beware of These Two Sources of Bad Medical Advice

The bots are more likely to accept planted nonsense if it appears in clinical documents — not unlike some people we know, to be honest. Read More ›
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Remarkable Engineering and the “Two Brains” Myth

Did two brains evolve into one? This is not a left brain/right brain thing. It is more like claims for a reptilian brain underlying our mammalian one. Read More ›
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In Science Research, a Plague of Phony Citations Generated by AI

Ironically, the public has been taught to worry that AI is taking over and will do everything better than humans. Read More ›
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Garbage Goodbye: In Blow to Junk RNA, “Majority” of Transcription Not “Background Noise”

A 2026 paper reports on an AI trained on genomic data, including data from a 2024 paper, enabling it to predict when transcription would be initiated. Read More ›
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4-D Nucleome Mapping Opens New Vision of Dynamic DNA Architecture

DNA is not a static sequence to read; it is a code that builds and operates its own factory. Read More ›
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 10, “The Intelligent Design Movement Died After Dover”

In December 2005, Judge John E. Jones ruled that intelligent design is not science, but religion. Critics predicted this would mean the end of the ID movement. Read More ›
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On Human-Chimp Genetic (Dis)Similarity, Give Credit Where Credit Is Due

Would anyone know that the 1 percent icon has finally fallen, if we hadn't broken the story? It seems not. Read More ›
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Missing the Irony, an Evolutionist Decries Private Truth

Ironically, the ultimate origin of private truth is the materialism that you yourself, Dr. Coyne, espouse. Read More ›
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Smithsonian Denigrates by Race, Including the Human Race

I have not yet heard that the Trump Administration is looking at what the NMNH says about human origins. But reforming the Smithsonian requires it. Read More ›

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