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Let's get this out of the way first: I'm a undergraduate in my fourth year of university studying Medical Genetics and Evolutionary Biology. Having said this, most of my edits are in the topics related to these two fields. Furthermore, I'm deeply concerned with the public's (lack of) understanding
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Editors were utterly and completely terrified to edit the article as they feared any change would give too much credit to this idea; this irrational fear got in the way of any improvement of the article. Editors were vetoing any changes based on two year old
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The above paragraph applies from 9am to 5pm Monday through Friday when I'm getting paid to do science. Once I take off my labcoat (on which, I am quite sure, new life has developed many a time) I'm just another
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of science, so a lot of my time is spend in discussion forums justifying claims made in scientific topics. I am always open to discussions, as this in depth
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For consistently good edits and talk page explanations as well as resisting the forces of pseudoscience in the
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shows. However, if a person criticizes science through
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William James

Ontario
en
native speaker
English language
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ΠœΠ°Ρ‚Π΅Ρ€ΡšΠΈ јСзик
српски јСзик
Maternji jezik
srpski jezik
de
fortgeschrittene
Deutschkenntnisse
Biology

evolution

...there is no spoon
do it
Dark Tower Junkie
Family Guy
freakin' sweet
Firefly

The Legend of Zelda series
Half-Life 2
discussion
evolution
arguments from personal incredulity

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