Tag: PNAS
Orderly Disorder: A Molecular Motor Regulated by IDP
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are common in cells. Can a disordered protein regulate a molecular motor?
Despite Dozens of Authors, PNAS Paper Fails to Explain Bird Evolution
They reason backwards: Birds evolved, therefore some poorly understood mindless processes must have driven them to evolve.
Testing Behe’s Principle that Darwin Devolves
We looked at some papers claiming to see evolution happening in real time, to see if natural selection has actually invented a new function, or just broke an existing function.
Polar Bear Seminar: On Retracting — and Not Retracting — Errors
It was Nathan Lents himself who wrote, “I’ve made mistakes, some I caught, others someone else caught. I always correct it the best I can. That’s what honest people do.”
Philosophers Want Back into Science
One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do.