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Denyse O'Leary
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February 20, 2022
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A scare from New Scientist: Melting permafrost could release ancient viruses that cause the next pandemic

Denyse O'Leary
February 20, 2022
Intelligent Design, Medicine
The basis for such panic marketing is usually a correct science observation — in this case, that microscopic life forms (and viruses) may hibernate for long periods in ice. However, as the New Scientist article notes, “bacteria that infect humans are adapted to live at our body temperatures, so it is highly unlikely that they would survive for long periods below zero.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 17, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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When the Centers for Disease Control abandon science…

Denyse O'Leary
February 17, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Prasad: "Throughout this pandemic, the CDC has been a poor steward of that balance, pushing a series of scientific results that are severely deficient. This research is plagued with classic errors and biases, and does not support the press-released conclusions that often follow." After a while, the public will catch on. The reputation of science is not going to do well out of the “Trust the Science!” phase. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 10, 2022
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We’re not your lab rats any more: Convoy update III

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
So much news worldwide now. I’ll just keep adding to it, putting new items at the top so you can keep checking back. I will try to group them loosely by topic where possible. This post is stickied for now so news news added on other topics is below this post. Read More ›
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February 4, 2022
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Culture, Medicine, News
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CoVid Spike Protein and Myocarditis Study: The Covid “Vaccine” is a Spike Protein Initiator.

February 4, 2022
Culture, Medicine, News

Today at Phys.Org, this press release and linked paper can be found. Now, listen to this: A research team led by Bristol’s Professor Paolo Madeddu exposed human heart pericytes, which are cells that wrap small blood vessels in the heart, to SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta variants, along with the original Wuhan virus. Surprisingly, they found the heart pericytes were not infected. Intrigued by this finding, in a second test-tube experiment, the researchers challenged the cardiac pericytes with the spike protein alone, without the virus. The spike protein made pericytes unable to interact with their companion endothelial cells and induced them to secrete inflammatory cytokines, suggesting the spike protein is harmful to human cardiac cells. Interestingly, the team found that antibodies Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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November 9, 2021
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Climate change, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Peer review
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From the world of “Trust the science… ”

Denyse O'Leary
November 9, 2021
Climate change, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Peer review
Reform is nearly impossible if the incentive structure remains as it is — rewarding publication in and of itself. On the other hand, nothing stays the same forever and growing public cynicism might provide a spur to reform. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 2, 2021
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Jerry Coyne on Cancel Culture’s hit on medical science

Denyse O'Leary
November 2, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
The new terminology would make it hard for most family doctors to talk plainly about typical health issues around, say, obesity or substance abuse very clearly. One doesn’t get the impression from the Woke rhetoric that the patient can decide to make changes that lead to better health. Yet people in all social groups do that every day. Anyway, Coyne is way more useful fighting this than fighting design in nature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 25, 2021
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Climate change, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Peer review
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Science writer asks: Why are medical journals full of fashionable nonsense?

Denyse O'Leary
October 25, 2021
Climate change, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Peer review
Alex Berezow: The point is that hopping aboard a political bandwagon is good for grabbing attention — and subsequently, funding. We are witnessing a similar phenomenon with respect to climate change. No matter how extraneous a topic, researchers try to tie it to climate change. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 15, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution theorizing for solving a mystery

Denyse O'Leary
October 15, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
At Big Think: “In order to truly appreciate Dr. Julius’ discovery, a bit of context may be in order. Unless you build up tolerance, eating spicy foods is painful. Peppers and wasabi give off a strange sensation that your mouth is on fire, and for the longest time researchers simply couldn’t figure out why this was the case. Failing to pinpoint any immediate benefits of this response, they speculated it must be the remnant of some distant evolutionary adaptation." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 21, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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At The Ness: Science is not Just Philosophy

Denyse O'Leary
September 21, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Wait. If atheist neurologist blogger Steven Novella is right, the science presenters in media must be speaking a different language from the rest of us. The impression that he says they don’t convey (“insight into the ultimate nature of reality”), they in fact do — by a variety of means. That’s okay, of course, until the whipped cream hits the fan. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 13, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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A new open access paper offers an approach to cancer that sees past Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
September 13, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Medicine
Researchers: Although neo-Darwinian (and less often Lamarckian) dynamics are regularly invoked to interpret cancer’s multifarious molecular profiles, they shine little light on how tumorigenesis unfolds and often fail to fully capture the frequency and breadth of resistance mechanisms. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 10, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Medicine, Peer review
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Statistician Ioannidis on how COVID wrecked science

Denyse O'Leary
September 10, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Peer review
Readers may remember John Ioannidis. His point here is that getting more people involved with science doesn’t always work: "A lack of sharing and openness allowed a top medical journal to publish an article in which 671 hospitals allegedly contributed data that did not exist, and no one noticed this outright fabrication before publication." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 25, 2021
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Medical science: “Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?”

Denyse O'Leary
August 25, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine
Michael Cook: The gold standard for fraud is a Japanese researcher in anaesthetics, Yoshitaka Fujii, of Toho University. By the time he came unstuck about 10 years ago, he had published around 200 articles – and 183 of them have been retracted because he had falsified the data. “If someone can publish 183 fabricated trials,” said Roberts, “the problem is not with him, the problem is with the system.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Epilepsy: If you follow the science, materialism is dead

Denyse O'Leary
August 24, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
Egnor: on the issue of intellectual seizures, the fact that there has not been a single seizure in recorded medical history out of 250 million seizures, a quarter of a billion seizures, that has evoked abstract intellectual content, Maybe the next one will, but I’m not going to bet on it… Read More ›