A while ago now (6 years ago, in fact! How time flies when you're having fun), I wrote a piece about some fairly wild claims made about Neandertals. Rather surprisingly this post (here, & over on sciblogs.co.nz where it's mirrored) continues to attract occasional comments from those who firmly believe in the idea that Neandertals […]
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parts of our genome are actually viral
I've just come across a most excellent article by the Genetic Literacy Project. In it, Nicholas Staropoli notes that a proportion of the human genome actually has viral origins. This might sound a bit strange – after all, we tend to think of viruses as our enemies (smallpox, measles, and the human papilloma virus come […]
Continue readingmms – the woo-filled gift that keeps on giving
I've written before about the so-called 'miracle mineral solution', aka MMS (here, for example), but I see that it's hit the news again recently. MMS is essentially bleach1, but one Jim Humble has made quite a little empire (and a 'church') out of selling the stuff, and has previously claimed that it's a preventative & […]
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