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    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

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    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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Real Scientists Speak out on the Biology Textbook Controversy

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has more Nobel Laureates on its faculty than any medical school in the nation, as well as more than a dozen fellows of the National Academy of Sciences. Happily, these genuinely eminent scientists–contrast the coterie of “scientists” rounded up by the Discovery [sic] Institute–have penned an excellent column on the teaching of evolutionay biology here. Somehow that famed “scientific controversy” about Darwin hasn’t made an impression on these leading biologists. Could it be because the controversy exists only in the minds of the Texas Taliban and their allies, the pathological liars at the Discovery [sic] Institute?

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