My SOFT Challenge

[AV1611VET]

Why would I not be honest?

I said honest "answer."

There's that truncating again!

 

[AV1611VET]

”Science” doesnt work like that.

But they try.

And I pray more people will be vigilant enough to notice those "news on the front page, retraction on page sixteen" moments.

Your view sounds like tinfoil hat nonsense.

I imagine so.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Just another example of science mislabeling something, then quietly truncating it and thinking we won't notice.

I'll say this though, I am surprised that one of science's most embarrassing mislabels, the "flying" squirrel, is still called "the flying squirrel."

They shot Pluto down faster than an honest vote; but the Glaucomys volans lives on.

Not really. Gliding is still a form of flying, so it's technically correct to call it a flying squirrel.
And Pluto is still Pluto.

Really, all you're doing is just being Don Quixote about this whole thing.

 

[Caliban]

I said honest "answer."

There's that truncating again!

I will ask the same question but in a way that makes it more clear--Why would I not give an honest answer?

 

[AV1611VET]

See why I call these "challenges" now?

 

[VirOptimus]

See why I call these "challenges" now?

Its challenging for you to make a coherent op?

 

[Caliban]

See why I call these "challenges" now?

This is no challenge--you are just not keeping up with science.

 

[AV1611VET]

This is no challenge--you are just not keeping up with science.

Well, like I said, I just noticed it in a recent post [that I wish I could find].

 

[Yttrium]

Although it's not a very useful term, one obvious place to look for SotF is with bacteria. Especially when antibiotics are involved. The antibiotics put severe evolutionary pressures on the bacteria. If we're not careful (and we often aren't), bacteria that are more resistant to the antibiotics survive and thrive.

 

[AV1611VET]

Although it's not a very useful term, one obvious place to look for SotF is with bacteria. Especially when antibiotics are involved. The antibiotics put severe evolutionary pressures on the bacteria. If we're not careful (and we often aren't), bacteria that are more resistant to the antibiotics survive and thrive.

Doesn't bacteria give off cytotoxins that keep other "tribes" at bay?

 

[Yttrium]

Doesn't bacteria give off cytotoxins that keep other "tribes" at bay?

Dunno. How would that apply in this case?

 

[AV1611VET]

Dunno. How would that apply in this case?

I think it's called survival of the fittest.

Mold gets on something, then gives off cytotoxins to ward off other species of mold that will try to invade.

Some people are sensitive to those cytotoxins and can get ill.

 

[Yttrium]

I think it's called survival of the fittest.

Mold gets on something, then gives off cytotoxins to ward off other species of mold that will try to invade.

Some people are sensitive to those cytotoxins and can get ill.

I'm not quite following your point. SotF relates to selection pressures. Something is killing off the population, and traits that help members of the species survives can become dominant in the population, as the members who lack those traits are wiped out. How does the cytotoxin apply to this?

 

[jacks]

I think they would like to go back to the term "natural selection", it has a kinder, gentler sound.
BTW AV it always amazes me how quickly you are attacked on these forums. You could say "Good Morning" and be stoned. It's to your credit you don't respond in kind. Keep smiling!

 

[AV1611VET]

I think they would like to go back to the term "natural selection", it has a kinder, gentler sound.
BTW AV it always amazes me how quickly you are attacked on these forums. You could say "Good Morning" and be stoned. It's to your credit you don't respond in kind. Keep smiling!

God bless you, jacks! Thank you for the kind words!

 

[Hans Blaster]

They shot Pluto down faster than an honest vote; but the Glaucomys volans lives on.

I'm pretty sure that the IAU isn't in charge of mammal classification (or extermination).

 

[Hans Blaster]

I think they would like to go back to the term "natural selection", it has a kinder, gentler sound.

It's *always* been "natural selection" see the title of Darwin's famous book.

 

[AV1611VET]

It's *always* been "natural selection" see the title of Darwin's famous book.

He made that point himself, when he said:

I think they would like to go back to the term "natural selection",

 

[AV1611VET]

I'm not quite following your point. SotF relates to selection pressures. Something is killing off the population, and traits that help members of the species survives can become dominant in the population, as the members who lack those traits are wiped out. How does the cytotoxin apply to this?

Fight or Flight.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Where does survival of the fittest fit in with evolution today?

Where it's always been: a catchy shorthand phrase.