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It wasn't really a study and it certainly wasn't from Stanford: Elsevier journal to retract widely debunked masks study whose author claimed a Stanford affiliation

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1376 patients at a large NYC hospital: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2012410

An interesting lecture (with Q&A) at my workplace from an infectious disease expert, about the SARS outbreak and possible lessons for our current situation: (It seems you have to watch it on Vimeo.)

A major paper appeared in Nature three days ago, reassessing evidence for horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to eukaryotes and between eukaryotes; the paper is here (behind paywall). The authors' conclusion is that eukaryotes have acquired bacterial genes predominantly through genes...

While we're here arguing about creationism and evolution, some of my colleagues are trying to do something about the state of the world: fighting Ebola. (Note: Pardis and her lab, including me, are in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. So we can't get away from evolution...

While the ridiculous argument about Neandertal mitochondrial DNA has been going on here, Svante Pääbo and company have been doing real science, sequencing the mtDNA from a 400,000 year old Homo bone from Spain: BBC story. Journal article The results are pretty confusing, since the DNA is...

I haven't been around much lately, but here are a few shots I took recently with my infrared DSLR. (I've probably posted something like the first one before, since it's a scene in my town, but I'm too lazy to check.) DSC_3382 DSC_3354 DSC_3304

Our church has been running an adult education class about science and faith, and we just did two classes devoted primarily to evolution. If you are interested in our approach to dealing with the subject (or if you are really bored and have a lot of time to kill), the classes have been...

Arguing with creationists. And I have to say, it felt pretty good.

Today's XKCD:

Last weekend I went hiking up Mt. Washington in New Hampshire with some friends. Here are a few shots from the trip. All taken with my point-and-shoot camera, a Fuji F200EXR, since I didn't feel like lugging my DSLR up 4000 vertical feet -- and in some cases it shows. Saco Lake DSCF1404 The...

For some reason, these red-coated gentlemen insist on invading our town every April: And they're loud about it, too: The locals always manage to beat them off . . . but come next April I'm sure they'll be back again.

A member of a forum you regularly reads repeatedly posts challenges in the form of polls, all making exactly the same point. Other members of the forum, fed up with this, challenge the challenge polls with their own, increasingly bizarre polls, which we will call "challenge challenge polls"...

On my family vacation I also took along my infrared-modified camera (an old Nikon D70) and shot with that as well. This was somewhat more experimental, since I'm still figuring out what works with IR and what doesn't. Some results: Memorial Church, Stanford University Somewhere near Fort...

For our summer vacation this year, our family visited parts of California. Here are a few photos that resulted . . . Alcatraz The required shot of the Golden Gate Bridge Round Meadow, Sequoia National Park A fallen sequoia My kids on top of Moro Rock Kings Canyon National Park, the...

This is a yearling black bear, seen last month in Sequoia National Park, California.

I recently had my old DSLR (a Nikon D70) converted to work as a purely infrared camera. It took some fussing to get the camera and some of my lenses to focus well together, but I got it working and took it out for its first spin over the weekend. This shot (of our town's green) shows the...

Here are a few shots I took on a recent (mostly business) trip to Hawaii. They are a little heavy on sunsets and sunrises, but that's just the way things worked out. Feel free to add travel shots of your own. Sunset off Waikiki: Sunrise from Diamond Head: Waikiki and Honolulu...

I was hiking in New Hampshire's White Mountains last month with my son and other Boy Scouts. It was peak foliage season, so naturally I took pictures. Here are some. On the Welch-Dickey trail: Lonesome Lake: The Mad River: A little private lane: