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Darwin’s Black Box, 30 Years On: A Seminal Contribution to Biology

It makes sense to think that the T3SS didn’t evolve into the bacterial flagellum, but that the bacterial flagellum shed some protein parts to become a T3SS.  Read More ›
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No. 9 Story for 2025: Biological Foresight Wins Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 2025 was awarded to three immunologists who discovered regulatory T cells. Read More ›
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Drunk homeless man covered his face with his hands and sits on the stairs in the underpass, black and white photo.
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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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Alfred Nobel Prize. Two medals standing on red fabric.
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Biological Foresight Wins Nobel Prize

Who is more worthy of honor: the designer of a highly sophisticated functional system, or investigators who figured out how it works? Read More ›
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Remembering Jonathan Wells, a Key Figure in the Intelligent Design Movement

When I spoke to Jonathan about the cost he paid in standing for his principles, he remarked that his decision to do prison time contained a blessing. Read More ›
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Farewell to Jonathan Wells, Iconoclastic Scientist

His work resulted in forcing textbook publishers to correct their own work, a task they and their media enablers bitterly resented. Read More ›
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Photo: Seattle waterfront, by Ron Clausen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Stepping in It: An Alternative to the Academic Wasteland

I walked out onto the sidewalk, enjoying the salty mist and the majestic Olympic Mountains. Then I looked down. Read More ›
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Top Science Journal: Let’s Export Wokeness to Outer Space

Equity advocate says future space colonies should be governed similarly to places like San Francisco or Portland. Read More ›
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Trapped in the Naturalistic Parabola

You may have noticed a strange loop which arises spontaneously in many sectors of the intelligent design debate. Read More ›
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Science Expert Slaps the “Anti-Intellectuals,” Again

I stopped by Joe the truck driver’s house to talk. Joe read Yale neurologist Steven Novella’s essay, and he didn’t think much of it. Read More ›

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