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// February 13th, 2007 // No Comments » // Blog
In this month's videocast, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf critiques recent books by Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris that seem to unfairly compare the best of science with the worst of religion (coincidently, the “don't dis the animals” analogy pops up again!). The video is in mp4 format.
Other Zaytuna pod & video casts can be found here.
// January 6th, 2007 // 9 Comments » // Blog
UK Scientists wishing to generate a line of stem cells using human-bovine hybrid embryos, may be refused permission by the government.
// December 26th, 2006 // 14 Comments » // Blog
And as humans, they are fallible, pig-headed and are just as likely to follow dogma as any theist.
You may think i'm referring to the Theory of Evolution – if only it were that simple!
I'm talking about the world of scientific research in general. I'll narrow the field down to molecular biology, as i suppose i cannot tar the whole community with the same brush.
Please trust me that i am talking from personal experience now.
// December 1st, 2006 // 14 Comments » // Blog
In academic circles, research scientists, especially PhD students, are frankly, cheap labour. We do all the hard work, get very little pay, even less thanks, and virtually no credit. The Principal Investigator (the guy/ gal [mainly guy] who heads the group) however does very little work, gets a lot of pay, even more thanks and 99.9% of the credit.
That sounds fair, right?
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