<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Politics Rules Bio-Science Too</title>
	<atom:link href="http://girlpundit.com/2009/12/politics-rules-bio-science-too/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://girlpundit.com/2009/12/politics-rules-bio-science-too/</link>
	<description>See Jane Run</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:44:00 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1</generator>
	<item>
		<title>By: R0b</title>
		<link>http://girlpundit.com/2009/12/politics-rules-bio-science-too/comment-page-1/#comment-122</link>
		<dc:creator>R0b</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://girlpundit.com/?p=3080#comment-122</guid>
		<description>If you consider Meyer&#039;s paper to be &quot;tightly argued&quot;, perhaps you can make sense of a few things for me:

- Why is the &quot;complex&quot; aspect of &quot;specified complexity&quot; originally treated as synonymous with &quot;improbable&quot;, and later treated as synonymous with &quot;non-repetitive&quot;?

- In most of Meyer&#039;s mentions of improbability, he doesn&#039;t state under which hypotheses the events in question are improbable.  On which hypotheses does he base his assessment of improbability?

- For the few cases in which Meyer does state or imply the hypothesis, the hypothesis is always uniform chance.  Why does Meyer address this hypothesis when nobody has claimed that biological structures arise by uniform chance?

- How can we estimate CSI (according to either of Meyer&#039;s two definitions) by counting the number of new cell types?

Thanks in advance.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you consider Meyer&#8217;s paper to be &#8220;tightly argued&#8221;, perhaps you can make sense of a few things for me:</p>
<p>- Why is the &#8220;complex&#8221; aspect of &#8220;specified complexity&#8221; originally treated as synonymous with &#8220;improbable&#8221;, and later treated as synonymous with &#8220;non-repetitive&#8221;?</p>
<p>- In most of Meyer&#8217;s mentions of improbability, he doesn&#8217;t state under which hypotheses the events in question are improbable.  On which hypotheses does he base his assessment of improbability?</p>
<p>- For the few cases in which Meyer does state or imply the hypothesis, the hypothesis is always uniform chance.  Why does Meyer address this hypothesis when nobody has claimed that biological structures arise by uniform chance?</p>
<p>- How can we estimate CSI (according to either of Meyer&#8217;s two definitions) by counting the number of new cell types?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Jeffrey Shallit</title>
		<link>http://girlpundit.com/2009/12/politics-rules-bio-science-too/comment-page-1/#comment-121</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Shallit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://girlpundit.com/?p=3080#comment-121</guid>
		<description>Cashill&#039;s take on the Sternberg affair is hyperbolic and differs from the facts.  If you want to read what really happened, read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-04-17#part2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ed Brayton&#039;s&lt;/a&gt; more sober and accurate appraisa, as well as &lt;a href=&quot;http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/04/the_dis_nonresponse_on_sternbe.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this followup&lt;/a&gt;.

Here&#039;s one quote from Brayton:  &quot;there was no &quot;persecution&quot; of Sternberg at the Smithsonian. He acted unethically and violated accepted protocol and his colleagues were angry at him. Some of them expressed that anger in private emails. That&#039;s it. That&#039;s the full extent of the &quot;persecution&quot; that he faced. He was not fired, he was not punished in any way for his actions, he only had some colleagues criticize him in private emails. This is persecution only on the other side of Alice&#039;s mirror.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cashill&#8217;s take on the Sternberg affair is hyperbolic and differs from the facts.  If you want to read what really happened, read <a href="http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-04-17#part2" rel="nofollow">Ed Brayton&#8217;s</a> more sober and accurate appraisa, as well as <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/04/the_dis_nonresponse_on_sternbe.php" rel="nofollow">this followup</a>.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s one quote from Brayton:  &#8220;there was no &#8220;persecution&#8221; of Sternberg at the Smithsonian. He acted unethically and violated accepted protocol and his colleagues were angry at him. Some of them expressed that anger in private emails. That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s the full extent of the &#8220;persecution&#8221; that he faced. He was not fired, he was not punished in any way for his actions, he only had some colleagues criticize him in private emails. This is persecution only on the other side of Alice&#8217;s mirror.&#8221;</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

