Q: What is the extent of your formal scientific education? I see that you attended the University of Nevada at some point. A: I had already been trained in the military to combat evolutionary theory (see also Combating Evolution to Fight Disease). After time spent in the hospital medical records department, I became the liaison … Military combat training to fight disease
See also: The biologically-based origin of the mammalian placenta I’ll preface this follow-up on the origins of the mammalian placenta with comments that attest to foolishness of theoretical physicists who try to link Big Bang cosmology to neo-Darwinian theories about mutations and evolution. RPF Interviews Dr. Alexander Unzicker Excerpt 1) “It annoys me too much … The biologically-based origin of the mammalian placenta (2)
Ideal Negative Measurements in Quantum Walks Disprove Theories Based on Classical Trajectories Reported as: Atoms can be in two places at the same time Excerpt: “This is not yet a proof that quantum mechanics hold for large objects,” cautions Alberti. My comment: I framed my comments and a question in the context of this article … Quantum Superpositions: let there be light
Environment, more than genetics, shapes immune system 1) –with my emphasis Re: “There’s nothing here that is revolutionary or requires rethinking of our assumptions about how the immune system functions…” My comment: They removed assumptions about cell type differentiation by linking differences in metabolic networks to genetic networks. They indirectly showed that ecological adaptations are … Environment epigenetically shapes the immune system
See also: Unconstrained evolutionary innovability Ideas that evolution is not constrained can be compared to experimental evidence of biophysically constrained ecological adaptations. The most recent relevant open access published work from the Jakobsson lab is: TRIM28 Represses Transcription of Endogenous Retroviruses in Neural Progenitor Cells. This is a link to a prior publication (also open … Constrained evolution is ecological adaptation
The Strange Inevitability of Evolution by Philip Ball Excerpt 1) Natural selection supplies an incredibly powerful way of pruning variation into effective solutions to the challenges of the environment. But it can’t explain where all that variation came from. As the biologist Hugo de Vries wrote in 1905, “natural selection may explain the survival of … Unconstrained evolutionary innovability
Imre Lakatos Excerpt: “A Lakatosian research programme[8] is based on a hard core of theoretical assumptions that cannot be abandoned or altered without abandoning the programme altogether. More modest and specific theories that are formulated in order to explain evidence that threatens the ‘hard core’ are termed auxiliary hypotheses. Auxiliary hypotheses are considered expendable by … From Hydra to humans vs a Lakatosian research program
Communicating Across Kingdoms? Researchers pinpoint microRNAs that could play a role in how Wolbachia bacteria manipulate their arthropod hosts. By Sandhya Sekar | December 15, 2014 Excerpt: “I am not sure that I would call this ‘communication,’ however,” he added, as the authors have in their paper. My comment: I’m rather certain that no evolutionary … Communication, not mutations
How Networks Are Revolutionizing Scientific (and Maybe Human) Thought By John Edward Terrell, Termeh Shafie and Mark Golitko | December 12, 2014 | Excerpt: “…evolutionary biologists are now modeling series of complex networked relationships at multiple levels ranging from individual “letters” in the genome to protein-gene networks to interaction networks between organisms, thereby demonstrating that our … Models by evolutionary biologists are not models
The ever-smaller future of physics ‘Theory of everything’ captures Weinberg’s imagination in Lee Historical Lecture Excerpt: “…there are hints that the answers to fundamental questions will reveal themselves at around a million billionths — between 10-17 and 10-19 — of the radius of the typical atomic nucleus. My comment: Evolutionary theorists may not recognize the … The future of physics predicts no future for evolutionary theory
