Response to James Tour: 700 Papers and Still Clueless (Part 1 of 2)
May 5, 2021
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as posted by the channelLast year I made a video about James Tour, a chemist and creationist who speaks out against origin of life research. He didn't like it much, so he decided to make a 14-part series about how dumb I am. He really pulled out all the stops, parading all of his classic fallacious talking points, with plenty of bald-faced lies and deliberate misrepresentations of scientific research peppered in for good measure. Honestly, I was rather shocked at how stupid it was. With so much material to work with, I ended up with quite a lot to say in response, and had to split it into two parts.
In this Part 1, we discuss how James pretends to be an expert on origin of life research but objectively isn't, and how he deliberately ignores mountains of research regarding the emergence of homochirality.
Part 2 of this response
My original video on James
Research cited in this video:
Organic molecules in planetary nebulae
Organic synthesis in the solar nebula
Life as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics
2021 autocatalysis review
Autocatalytic confusion clarified
Spontaneous network formation among cooperative RNA replicators
Cronin and autocatalysis
Selfsustained replication of an RNA enzyme
Niche partitioning in the coevolution of 2 distinct RNA enzymes
Origin and evolution of the genetic code
Microscopic dissipative structuring and proliferation at the origin of life)319060.pdf
Viedma on enantiomeric recrystallization
Deracemization of amino acids via sublimation
Spoilt for choice on the evolution of homochirality
Selective adsorption of amino acids on calcite
A route to enantiopure RNA precursors from nearly racemic starting materials
Origin of biological homochirality
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