Though ERVs are my favorite tool vs Creationists, HIV is a fantastic choice as well.
I mean, has anyone seen hide or hair of Behe since 2007?
Poor guy.
Alas, there are still Creationists out there, so to address some of their 'concerns', c0nc0rdance made a couple of vids using his favorite HIV protein, Vpr:
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If there is one aspect of cranks that is almost universal (besides the aforementioned tendency to want to prove themselves through things like "live televised debates"), it's
The weekend was busy, and I was working on grants, which meant that I could only come up with one post of Orac-style length and depth. Sadly, it wasn't for this blog.
YouTuber MylesPowers1985 has got an in-depth analysis of the HIV Denier movie, 'House Of Numbers', going. Of the episodes I saw, it is really good.
A long, long time ago in a ScienceBlogs far, far away (well, it seems that way anyway, given the halcyon times back then before Pepsigate), Mark Hoofnagle coined the term "
Seeing OFNF getting PWNED seriously never gets old, especially when it's on microbiology stuff. lol
Thanks for the post, Abbie!
Not surprisingly, I haven't heard a peep from OnceForgivenNowFree. It was still worth it to stir up the HIV-AIDS denialists and evolution denialists in one video, though.
Forgive me for my horrible grammar and spelling and just lack of knowledge on anything. The grammar and spelling is due to dyslexia the lack of knowledge is laziness. Anywhere here goes just a few weeks ago I hear a lab in a philly university actually came up with a bacteria or something that targets the hiv or aids virus cells and leaves the other cells alone, is this correct or close to correct. It was a legit news channel but seem not to be able to find anything on it. I am not personally affected with hiv/aids but my brother has been full blown aids since the early 90's and pretty much at the end at this point.
Al Franken would say that he has a one word argument winner for creationists- "FOSSILS". Interestingly, defunct retroviruses in our genomes are molecular fossils.