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Are You Feeling Lucky?
NY Times blog post covers a ground-breaking scientific discovery - Looking to Genes for the Secret to Happiness Our genes may have a more elevated moral sense than our minds do, according to a new...
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Sequence Your Narcissome with 23 and Me
1. Single author paper – ‘I’ or ‘We’? Few weeks back, we asked: Single Author Bioinformatics Paper – ‘I’ or ‘We’? Almost all readers recommended ‘I’ and nobody said ‘we’, although we presume Heng Li...
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Physics Nobel Prize – Big Slap for Big Science?
Two days back, Kevin Davies asked whether Nobel committee would change its 3-person rule to award Nobel prize to 3000+ experimentalists, who spent millions of dollars of government money to discover...
View ArticleA Tale of Two ‘Peer Reviewed’ Papers
Long, long time ago, it was believed that highly specialized work of one scientist could be best evaluated by another scientist working in the same field. For example, in 1993 Andrew Wiles of Princeton...
View ArticleScience Reporting: a New Trend Emerges
It is quite unusual to find Economist magazine starting an attack on scientists, while journals like Nature and Cell go on the defensive. Science reporting by mainstream media seems to have entered a...
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The Astonishing Story of Nick Brown, Who Debunked the Mathematics of Happiness
Readers of our blog should be quite familiar with ‘The Happiness Lady’, who managed to dupe PNAS to get her genetics paper accepted (check Tragedy of the Day: PNAS Got Duped by Positivity Lady !!)....
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The ‘Right Way’ and the ‘Wrong Way’ to Criticize Science
————————————————————— Lior Pachter Every time we go to Lior Pachter’s blog, we start with the assumption that he is making a highly inflated claim. His titles seem too aggressive and the accusations...
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Scientists Predict Longer, Harsher Winter
For comic relief, right from the top of yahoo news - Jet stream shift could prompt harsher winters: scientists A warmer Arctic could permanently affect the pattern of the high-altitude polar jet...
View ArticleOh No !! Indians Are Suing Retraction Watch to Get Articles on Anil Potti...
Every day takes India to another new low. What is wrong with the country, where top police office tells women to enjoy rape? We earlier covered “Long-term Criminal Fraud at Indian Drug-maker Ranbaxy”,...
View ArticleHomolog.us Blog Congratulates ENCODE’s Stamatoyannopoulos for Rediscovering...
Stamatoyannopoulos made another breakthrough discovery !! At this rate, he will figure out Darwin’s theory of evolution by the end of next year. We have to bring back the old video that will be...
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Finally a Good Idea from Francis Collins
This is definitely a good move. Hope it is serious, and not an effort to distract those, who are complaining too much about ‘big science’ waste. James Anderson works at the US National Institutes of...
View ArticleGlobal Warming, Scripted Media and the Havoc Caused by Comment Section
IN USA, ‘central command’ decides what stories are to be reported to people and how, and the rest of mainstream media follow the lead. If you have any doubt about scripted nature of US media, the...
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‘Network Nonsense’ at Lior Pachter’s Blog Escalates
Biological Context – Yeast Protein Interaction Network In 2002, two back-to-back papers got published in Nature, giving researchers a large treasure-trove of yeast 2-hybrid protein interaction data....
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Feynman on Science vs Advertising (for New Generation of ENCODE-inspired...
We noticed this tweet about a talk at a ‘science’ conference. The problem is that science does not have room for “PR” and “advertising”, as argued by Feynman 40 years back. Cargo Cult Science The...
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Incredibly Powerful Speech from Brenner, but Ewan Birney Disagrees
Sydney Brenner, a ‘failed’ biologist from UK, delivered a thought-provoking talk in 2006. Brenner hammers ‘factory science’ The title of his talk was “The Next 100 Years of Biology,” but Brenner, whose...
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Mutation and Cancer – A View from Retirement
The webpage of Bernard S. Strauss, Professor Emeritus at University of Chicago provides the following summary of research work conducted by him over his career. During the period from 1960 until about...
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For Today’s Comic Relief
Peter Kraft, ‘Professor, Harvard School of Public Health – Deputy Director, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology’, wrote - How is this for other reason for proposing more and larger GWAS for...
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Is It Time to Get the ENCODE Paper Retracted?
Dan Graur’s ENCODE bombshell – “On the immortality of television sets: “function” in the human genome according to the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE” came out in February 2013. For several months,...
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Who Deserves the ENCODE Nobel Prize? Ans. Ron Davis
ENCODE made the major discovery of finding 80% of human genome functional. Usually when Nobel (or IgNobel) prizes are awarded, the committees work hard to make sure other less well-known papers making...
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Debunking ENCODE’s Latest Propaganda Piece Para by Para
ENCODE leaders published their latest propaganda piece in PNAS - “Defining functional DNA elements in the human genome” and Dan Graur has done fantastic work of tearing it apart. @ENCODE_NIH in PNAS...
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