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Intelligent Design Into The Science Curriculum

Intelligent Design Into The Science Curriculum

Oct 22 2012 | comment(s)

Design, according to some, needs a designer. However, famous biologists and neo-Darwinists such as D. Dennett say that evolution “designs” by natural selection. If we accept that usage of the term, “design” does not by definition imply an intentional act (much like “the hand evolved in order to grasp” does not imply that evolution desires to achieve anything). If there are “blind watchmakers” who do “design”, then the following question is scientific:


Can we possibly, for example by investigating the designed “creation”, distinguish an intelligent designer, one that did have intentions, from an aimless design process like algorithmic evolution?

What 57 Percent Of Dieticians Recommend For Nutritional Success

What 57 Percent Of Dieticians Recommend For Nutritional Success

Oct 22 2012 | comment(s)

57 percent of dietitians say nutritional success  only happens if people can indulge once in a while; in foods where taste is the priority.

A survey of 200 dietitians and attendees at the Food&Nutrition Conference&Expo on Oct. 6th-8th by online retailer FreshDirect determined that a majority of respondents said they would acquire a taste for anything that's good for them and like it, 65 percent admit to cooking or seasoning their vegetables to tolerate the taste.
Positive CHMP Opinion For Mirabegron In Treatment Of Overactive Bladder Symptoms

Positive CHMP Opinion For Mirabegron In Treatment Of Overactive Bladder Symptoms

Oct 21 2012 | comment(s)

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion, recommending the granting of a marketing authorization for BETMIGA[ (mirabegron) for the symptomatic treatment of urgency, increased micturition frequency and/or urgency incontinence as may occur in adult patients with overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome. 

The opinion now needs ratification by decision of the European Commission which is expected within the next 74-90 days. If approved, mirabegron will be the first in a new class of OAB treatment, offering healthcare professionals an alternative option to antimuscarinics (currently the only licensed oral treatment option) when treating patients with OAB.

Bones Of Contention: Dinosaur Cells Survived Millions Of Years Trapped In Bone

Bones Of Contention: Dinosaur Cells Survived Millions Of Years Trapped In Bone

Oct 20 2012 | comment(s)

Twenty years ago Mary Schweitzer found herself the closest that anyone has ever been to a living dinosaur. As she examined a thin slice of a T. Rex bone fragment under a microscope, she realized she was looking at what appeared to be preserved red blood cells- cells which had no place in a 65 million year old fossil. It was the first time that anyone had found evidence that biological material could survive the passage of millions of years and still retain its molecular structure, challenging one of the central beliefs of paleontologists. 
Galaxy Evolution - An 8 Billion Year Pattern Emerges

Galaxy Evolution - An 8 Billion Year Pattern Emerges

Oct 20 2012 | comment(s)

Star-forming galaxies take the form of orderly disk-shaped systems, like the Andromeda Galaxy or the Milky Way, where rotation dominates over other internal motions. The most distant blue galaxies in the study tend to be very different, exhibiting disorganized motions in multiple directions. There is a steady shift toward greater organization to the present time as the disorganized motions dissipate and rotation speeds increase. These galaxies are gradually settling into well-behaved disks.
First Patient In Randomized Controlled Hypertension Trial Of AV-Coupler Enrolled

First Patient In Randomized Controlled Hypertension Trial Of AV-Coupler Enrolled

Oct 20 2012 | comment(s)

Cyberbullying Does Not 'Cause' Teen Suicide

Cyberbullying Does Not 'Cause' Teen Suicide

Oct 20 2012 | comment(s)

While it makes for convenient mainstream media news pieces to draw convenient lines between cyber-bullying and suicide and thus declare that ending bullying would end suicides, it's not so simplistic, notes research from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans. Most teen suicide victims are bullied both online and in school, and many suicide victims also suffer from depression.
CHMP Positive Opinion For HUMIRA In Pediatric Crohn's Disease

CHMP Positive Opinion For HUMIRA In Pediatric Crohn's Disease

Oct 20 2012 | comment(s)

Jonah Lehrer, Proust, And The Tyranny Of Salami

Jonah Lehrer, Proust, And The Tyranny Of Salami

Oct 19 2012 | comment(s)

In the scientific community, researchers call it salami slicing. Appropriately, the act consists of shaving down a collected dataset until a scientist reaches the smallest scrap of result that still constitutes an original idea.

This decontextualized whisper defines the least publishable unit: the publon. The researcher proceeds to neatly separate the salami slice from the rest of the data and use it as the meat of a submission to a peer-reviewed journal. The next step fills out the sandwich: Authors repeat the submission process several times with various combinations of the same publons and different academic journals.
Guidelines For Clostridium Difficile Infection Testing Not Being Followed In Europe

Guidelines For Clostridium Difficile Infection Testing Not Being Followed In Europe

Oct 19 2012 | comment(s)

Data presented at the international ID Week 2012 conference in San Diego showed that over three quarters (78%) of healthcare professionals surveyed in Europe believed that they may not be following guidelines for the testing of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), despite survey respondents believing that CDI is increasing with a large number of cases going undiagnosed.[1]