Advances in biology reveal truth about prokaryotes

Truth about Truth Detecting Techniques

During the period from 2001 to 2010 police officials in India were lured by a team of pseudo-scientists, from the Forensic Laboratories in Bangalore and Ahmadabad to make use of narcoanalysis, polygraph test and brain fingerprinting to extract confessions from accused persons. All the three tests, preceded by a pre-test interview and interrogation, were conducted by the one and the same expert ...

GC3 Biology in Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes

The genetic code, the set of rules by which information encoded in genetic material, is found in every cell of every living organism. This code consists of all possible combinations of trinucleotide sequences in coding regions, called codons. With a few exceptions, such as startand stop-codons, a triplet codon in a DNA sequence specifies a single amino acid – protein’s building block. The human...

Substantivism about truth

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The truth about lying.

The standard view in social science and philosophy is that lying does not require the liar's assertion to be false, only that the liar believes it to be false. We conducted three experiments to test whether lying requires falsity. Overall, the results suggest that it does. We discuss some implications for social scientists working on social judgments, research on lie detection, and public moral...

The Truth About Defaults