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Archives for April, 2008
Press Releases are Written by Stupid People
Posted by RPM on April 9, 2008
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PLoS Biology’s press releases have taken another step toward being dismissed as “crap” by people who know jack shit about evolution, thanks to a new press release published last week. It starts off like so: Evolution has taken another step away from being dismissed as “a theory” in the classroom, thanks to a new paper…
Evidence that Men Think With Their Junk
Posted by RPM on April 8, 2008 Us dudes are always accused of thinking with our dicks. Perhaps it’s because the genes expressed in our brains are similar to those expressed in our ‘nads: Among the 17 tissues, the highest similarity in gene expression patterns was between human brain and testis, based on DDD and clustering analysis. Genes contributing to the similarity…