Taxonomy Fail

Recently came across some ridiculously horrible taxonomy from China (.PDF). If you scroll down a bit you can see the english translation. At first glance this looks like a standard taxonomy paper with bare-bones species descriptions. You might even think to yourself, “huh, wonder why they are describing species from only one specimen”. Not the . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Taxonomy Fail

Liūdna, bet tiesa

The brief comment about Linus Pauling and Vitamin C below made me remember this video first posted a while ago by Pharyngula. Tai Kary Mullis, PGR išradėjas, ir Nobelio premijos laureatas. Jo išradimas iš esmės padarė DNR analizė įmanoma. Bet kaip Pauling, jis taip pat yra visiškai ir visiškai riešutai. If you have . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Liūdna, bet tiesa