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Any rational person who watched my debate with James Tour was immediately struck by Tour's totally insane behavior, focused on chalkboard pageantry and shouting like a deranged lunatic for two full hours. But there is a lot more to discuss regarding the very numerous and very specific lies he told during the exchange regarding the scientific literature we were discussing. Not to mention the biased moderator and other key details, which deserve to be addressed. So let's dive into a little fact-checking endeavor, which comes with commentary from four experts in the OoL field: Dave Deamer, Loren Dean Williams, James Attwater, and Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo. Let's humiliate James even more AND learn about cool science in the process!
Watch the full debate: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaeqlZ-irZ6jgLc
Lee Cronin with Lex Fridman: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIjNdpVtj5aeZ5o
Ashkenazy Peptides: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00463-1
Powner Side Chains: pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.2c03486
Szostak RNA Linkage Heterogeneity: molbio.mgh.harvard.edu/szostakweb/publications/Szostak_pdfs/Engelhart_et_al_2013_NatChem.pdf
Deamer Prebiotic Analogue Conditions: www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/2/134
Loren Dean Williams Research Page: cool.gatech.edu/people/williams-loren-dean
Functional Information: www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.0701744104
More Information Stuff: arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0590.pdf
James Attwater Research Page: www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/people/james-attwater
Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo Research Page: www.ias-research.net/people/kepa_ruiz-mirazo/
Kepa Prebiotic Systems Chemistry Review: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24171674/
James thinks no one has demonstrated RNA formation on montmorillonite clay. He's a lying idiot:
www.nature.com/articles/381059a0
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12458736/
www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/4/3/318
www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/8/3857
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169131711002201
James thinks no one has ever produced a fully self-replicating ribozyme. He's a lying idiot:
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.202471099
www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1074-5521%2804%2900277-7
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3943892/
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.0903397106
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652413/
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29113-x
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920166/
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