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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚
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Scientist and science writer from New Zealand. BioinfoTools on Twitter. Traveller. Cycle touring. More later - just setting this account up!
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Here’s a selection! Adam, like usual, is very blunt!😀

I have rarely read a worse abstract than this. It’s abject wankwaffle, and is a honking disservice to science, science communication and the study of evolution.

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The introduction is worse. 
Oh wait. It’s Cronin. That figures.
A few simple Google searches later and this is all starting to make more sense. The senior author is funded by Templeton, which funds efforts to sow doubts about Evolution by making it seem like there is more disagreement in my field than actually exists.
I am currently debating whether I should bring this paper up in my undergraduate evolution class or not. The abstract and first paragraph alone contains multiple misconceptions about evolution that I work hard to address in my course.
The first line of the abstract is so removed from reality, that I don't know what to do with it: "Scientists have grappled with reconciling biological evolution with the immutable laws of the Universe defined by physics."

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Hhwitt.bsky.social

Dont forget the thread by one coauthor "explaining" the paper. Its even more confusing than the paper itself.

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Pphysgal.bsky.social

Wankwaffle is such a great word choice here

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LEellisor.bsky.social

Abject Wankwaffle will be the name of my new Weird Al tribute band.

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CAchrisadami.bsky.social

I think people should be at least a little concerned about the fact that one of the reviewers (and who penned the accompanying commentary) is a long-term collaborator and friend (George Ellis) who also has ties to the Templeton Foundation. Never should have been a reviewer.

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GJnotjustdna.bsky.social

Now there’s a meme, too

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MBmjibrown.bsky.social

This is in the mothership rather than Scientific Reports? Hmmm.

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MHmarkhisted.org

David puts his finger on the problem.

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THthehuman.bsky.social

Seemed like useless garbage to me…nice to be reassured that I’m not missing something profound. Now that I am aware of the motivation behind it, I won’t even bother reading it next time.

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EWejwillingham.bsky.social

Well, that was extremely gratifying. Thank you.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚
@notjustdna.bsky.social
Scientist and science writer from New Zealand. BioinfoTools on Twitter. Traveller. Cycle touring. More later - just setting this account up!
811 followers338 following3k posts