Welcome ERV

By denialism on April 29, 2008.

No time for blogging today but make sure to welcome ERV, on of my favorite bloggers, to the network.

Welcome ERV!

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REPOST: Creationist Claims about ERVs

IDiots and ERVs

Over a year ago, I made a short series of posts addressing Creationists and endogenous retroviruses (Old ERV, New

Endogenous ERV

WHOO! Thanks to Mark at 'Good Math, Bad Math', the old ERV is back up. For now. ERVs disappearance wasnt a generalized Blogger glitch.

Oh dear this is a mess: ERVs and Multiple Sclerosis #5

Okay, I have written a LOT about the connection between wayward ERV activity and Multiple Sclerosis. This is something scientists have been investigating for a long time... but we still do not know exactly what is going on.

Seconded...got too busy to drop a post on her. Yay!

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