EPMAG

vox populi, vox rei OK, the full review was found too much aggressive toward the author and the referees and the editor. Concerning the staff of Organogenesis I must say that they done the worst job, I’m aware of, while reviewing and accepting this paper. I hope that no biologist was involved in the review [...]

got mail

A friend contacted me after reading the draft of the review of EPMAG. With permission: As you say, no need to be an expert to be sure that no embryologist reviewed the paper. Too much BS in there. And who cares about the exactitude of the mathematical formulas if they apply to a fictional space? [...]

77 yo

77 years ago, Wetzel nicely described and depicted cell movements at the chick embryo epiblast. And this is from his 1929 paper1

Stuart Pivart Lifecode

Lifecode – From Egg to Embryo by Self-Organization A Book Review: “Lifecode: From egg to embryo by self-organization”, Mark Chu-Carroll Lifecode: From egg to embryo by self-organization & Lifecode, PZ Myers Review of Stu Pivar’s book Lifecode, Jerry Bergman at Denyse O’Leary’s blog Busted: PR Flacks who ran afoul of the science blogosphere, including a [...]

Science, web, discussions

I posted a quickie on Orac’s and MarkCC post-publication, blog based review of Patrick S. Carroll’s paper “The Breast Cancer Epidemic: Modeling and Forecasts Based on Abortion and Other Risk Factors”. Essentially because I’ll use part of MarkCC post for my comment on EPMAG’s review. Another quite interesting discussion over the Net is the one [...]

controversial theory? nope, controversial attitude

A few days ago, Enro commented on this post. My reply was a quickie and I promised to be more explicit. Here I’m.

How to triage nonsense

Abortion and breast cancer: The Chicago Tribune feeds the myth Tag-Teaming with Orac: Bad, Bad Breast Cancer Math in JPANDS Title by MarkH at Denialism Blog

maybe out of focus

maybe not. Anyway, interesting stuff.

Oh dear, how “beeeeep”

I do predicted that the quality of this blog will fall vertiginously, just after the decision to let VF comment freely.Seems that you don’t need an exact mathematical model to do predictions that are verified, factually, in a relatively short time. All you need, is to know your man

hypothesis, model, theory, Fleury

I had a few discussions about the use of these terms, in general and in connexion with the present case, and I would like to avoid explaining the use I make of them for each person interested by. I’ll try to pack my opinion in a single post.