So the Church of England has “decided” that science and religion are apparently compatible (a vague, loosely defined word in this context, but nevermind…) at a general synod in London. Schizophrenia!

Funny species, those Intelligent Design proponents (aka IDiots) are. They keep repeating the same vacuous arguments (well, not even arguments really, more like delusions) until they manage to convince themselves. Take for example this award winning quote from Casey Luskin.

After last year’s magnet problems which caused damage and significant delays at the experiments, LHC scientists have once again injected particle beams into the collider -thus officially resuming the operations to create a black hole that will mercilessly devour the whole planet.

Since lately my post on the twin coin flipping “paradox” has been gaining attraction, and there are still misconceptions about the outcome, I thought I should hack up a quick script to demonstrate. Experimenting is always the best way to verify an idea so let’s do that.

The 2009 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery of “how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase“. From the press release:…

I was surprised last week to see a number of media reports on the apparent safety of the MMR vaccine and that, no, it doesn’t cause autism after all… Loads of evidence have been gathered over the last decade that conclusively show that MMR has nothing to do with autism whatsoever, yet even nowadays some still argue about this!

Long time no see. The “Stuff from the Science Blogosphere” series returns for the new season, after a longer than average break. And this time we have the usual alternative medicine crap, ranging from homeopathy (our favorite) to Chinese herbs and natural remedies. University courses that really should be more in touch with reality. And some antivaccinationist propaganda to close off this instalment a bit more seriously. Here we go…

Story comes from BBC, “Pigs offer new stem cell source”, and is based on research done by a Chinese team at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, led by Dr Lei Xiao, and published at the Journal of Molecular Biology