The Osama/"Junk DNA" Connection

President Obama is said to have known the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden since September but chose to wait until May to authorize action against him. Why the delay? Could it perhaps have been to provide a super-timely news hook for the rollout of Jonathan Wells' new book, The Myth of Junk DNA? If so, an additional note of congratulations is owed to Mr. Obama.

How do you think OBL's body was identified? By a comparison with his sister's DNA, evidently those non-coding regions singled out by...