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Mike Dunford was a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studied evolution. Life as an army spouse has since moved him on to Pensacola, where he's currently trying to figure out what to do next. While he's doing that, he writes stuff here, although not usually in the third person. He's also a contributer to The Pandas Thumb. As is the case with everyone else here, his opinions are his own, and do not necessarily represent those of any organization he is affiliated with.
January 31, 2007
Revere, at Effect Measure, comments on a story that just appeared in Inside Higher Education. The article detals a completely outrageous attempt at dealing with unfavorable information: What set off the Pentagon was Bilmes' estimate for the current number of...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 11:05 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's an interesting op-ed on teaching evolution in today's edition of the International Herald Tribune. The opinion piece is written by Michael Balter, and suggests that, "The best way to teach the theory of evolution is to teach this contentious...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 2:27 PM • 89 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I always find it a bit amusing when someone who is exceptionally good at identifying (and mercilessly mocking) stupidity in certain circumstances turns out to be totally oblivious to his own stupidity. That's exactly the case when it comes to...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 12:27 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 30, 2007
Walter ReMine (an anti-evolutionist who ardently believes that "Haldane's Dilemma" is a real problem for evolution) recently updated the entry for "Haldane's Dilemma" at the CreationWiki. The update does not directly refer to my recent posts on the topic, but...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 11:36 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An interesting comment about open access has been left over at Bora's place. The commenter is clearly not in favor of open access, and provides a number of reasons for her opposition. I'm going to break the comment into a...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 9:14 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over the last couple of days, quite a number of articles have been posted here at Scienceblogs commenting on the for-profit academic publishing community's most recent efforts to fight mandatory open access to government science. The industry group representing the...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 4:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 29, 2007
In 1862, the British philosopher Herbert Spencer used the phrase "survival of the fittest" to describe Darwin's concept of natural selection. It's not a bad phrase, really, and it doesn't do a bad job of describing natural selection - the...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 8:33 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 28, 2007
I've got a strange feeling that this answer is going to be, by far, the most common one among the Sciencebloggers: What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D....
Posted by Mike Dunford at 1:16 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 27, 2007
Jim Lynch, in an apparent attempt to see if he could get my blood pressure to break new ground, just sent me a link to this discussion of Rush Limbaugh's latest bit of verbal flatulence. Rush appears to have some...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 6:59 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2007
Yesterday's post on evolutionary speed limits and Haldane's Dilemma has sparked some interesting discussion, and some of the comments have already started to move beyond the very simple scenario that I outlined. Next week, I'll post a couple of more...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 5:34 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
