Twisted Tree of Life Awards

I get frustrated.  Sometimes too much so.  Sometimes just enough. And I write posts about mis-representations of evolution and phylogeny.  And so I now give out an award for this - The Twisted Tree of Life Award

Here are some

• And today in the Twisted Tree of Life Award - the only way to study evolution is to try and make fake reconstructions of past events
• Twisted Tree of Life Award: University of Nebraska Lincoln Press Release on Archaeal Epigenetics
• Treponema are not "ancient" but absence from some human's guts is very interesting
• Twisted tree of life award: throwback PR from an ingrained Oregon State
• Twisted Tree of Life Award #16: Nature & Authors doing taxonomic alchemy converting an archaeon to a bacterium
• Twisted tree of life award #15: NBC News on "Junk DNA mystery"
• Twisted tree of life award #14: @nytimes and Nathaniel Rich on Immortal Jellyfish. 
• Some discussion on Twitter.
• Twisted tree of Life Award #13: Press release from U. Oslo on new protozoan
• Twisted Tree of Life Award #12: Billion Year Old Smart Bacteria That Perfectly Treat Cancer
• Twisted tree of life award #11: National Geographic for emphasizing Five Kingdoms & no Bacteria/Archaea
• Twisted tree of life award #10: @Discovermag for article on Lynne Margulis
• Twisted Tree of Life Award #9: Nature News on the "Marsupial" platypus
• Twisted Tree of Life Award #8: Alroy on "Changing the rules of evolution"
• Twisted Tree of Life Award #7: NPR on the Evolution of Crying
• Twisted tree of life award #6: Scientific American Origins piece for dissing microbes
• Twisted tree of life award #5: Nicholas Wade & use of higher, lower, ladders, etc
• Twisted Tree of Life Award #4: Hoxful Monsters Blog on "Primitive" Animals
• Twisted Tree of Life Award #3: The Columbus Dispatch on Ancient Bacteria
• Twisted Tree of Life Award #2: Science Friday on the Five Kingdoms
• Twisted Tree of Life Award #1: Salk Institute Press Release on Kinases

Also see some Tweets

And today in the Twisted Tree of Life Award https://t.co/BHjyVdYqjd #JustSayNoProkaryotes

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) August 30, 2018

Twisted tree of life award: The Scientist for headline "Prehistoric Microbes Inhabit an Oasis in the Northern Mexican Desert" https://t.co/2OOL0LUYIg - modern organisms are NOT prehistoric ...

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 27, 2019

Twisted Tree of Life Award: German Aerospace Center PR about Mars life for inappropriate use of term primitive e.g. "primitive terrestrial organisms such as mosses, lichens, fungi, bacteria, archaea ('primeval bacteria')" https://t.co/chNtP41Sxa

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 30, 2019