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Aagaard et al. still don’t answer the question how fetuses and newborns acquire their gut biomes, except that it’s not from the vagina during birth, but they do clear up, what bacteria are acquired. How they get from a woman’s mouth to her placenta Read the rest of this entry »
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The discussion about significance and the prevention of publishing nonsense is continuing in PNAS, and a very good thing too. How much this discussion of arcana by specialists is helping all those authors, who have yet to grasp the basics, is an open question, though.
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The recent announcement by the American Academy of Pediatrics is a typical and most blatant example of both Cargo cult Science and “Never trust the experts”. When my daughter was born, rather a short time before 1994, my wife and me kept being admonished in the strongest and least ambiguous terms possible, never ever to let her sleep on her back because Read the rest of this entry »
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PNAS has come out with a big special section on aspects of the Neolithisation process.
There is one huge internal contradiction in the otherwise convincing article by Villa & Roebroeks. If there really was no cognitive or social advantage for AMHs, Read the rest of this entry »
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While there certainly are isolated cases of the kind of problem Macilwain highlights, I fail to agree they are the norm. What he calls environmentalists advocat[ing] caution is all too often just the opposite, like the wholesale demolition of a secure energy supply in favour of unproven, unreliable and expensive alternatives, the kind of thing best represented by Lysenko, the great leap forward, and Read the rest of this entry »
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There is nothing I can see to fault the results by Campbell et al. as they are. But then the area and the families those children came from were cherry picked for best results and what they got is hardly representative of normal state-run childcare. If this is going to be taken as a pretext for more enforced social engineering Read the rest of this entry »
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If I read Gassmann et al. correctly, the susceptibility of the current regime of maize growing for breeding resistance was well known beforehand, but it was adopted regardless. Are humans innately too stupid to use things like antibiotics sensibly? Read the rest of this entry »
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I’m very surprised by the explanation for zebra stripes by Caro et al. (unfortunately the full article is only accessible at an extortionate price) being touted as a new result. In his “Rätsel der Menschwerdung” Josef Reichholf already Read the rest of this entry »
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Powell et al. 2012 sounds interesting and seems to confirm a well accepted hypothesis. Going into the details though, there is no significant correlation between the cause and effect values and what there is points in the wrong direction.[1] The article doesn’t show a single meaningful diagram Read the rest of this entry »
Genau wie in den Monaten vor dem August 1914 überschlägt sich die Presse in hetzerischer Kriegspropaganda und schreckt wieder einmal vor offenen Lügen nicht zurück. Was treibt den Brüsseler Sowjet? Mehr dazu auf berger-odenthal.de.
