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Response to James Tour: 700 Papers and Still Clueless (Part 2 of 2)
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1:28:49Now PlayingLast 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 2, we examine how James is lying about our progress towards prebiotic syntheses of all the major classes of biomolecules, and when it comes to cells, James would rather mislead his viewers with dazzling animations of modern eukaryotic cells than actually dig into the relevant literature. If you thought Part 1 was devastating, strap in.
Part 1 of this response
My original video on James
Research cited in this video:
Condensation of amino acids in water
Amyloid aggregates from amino acid condensations
Lee's formation of oligopeptides
Peptides by mechanochemistry
Bruce's peptide bond formation
Peptide bond halflife
A route to enantiopure RNA precursors from nearly racemic starting materials
Hydrothermal conditions at the origin of cellular life
Lipidassisted polymerization of nucleotides
A defense of the RNA world hypothesis
Testing ideas in prebiotic analogue conditions
The emergence of RNA from the heterogeneous products of prebiotic nucleotide synthesis
Jack's nature.com article for laypeople
Lee and the formose reaction
Breslow's autocatalysis
Peptidebased organocatalysis
Impressive 92mer polysaccharide total synthesis
Seeberger's automated glycan assembly
McCollum's lipid synthesis
The lipid world
Nick Lane and chemiosmosis
Nick Lane on membrane divergence
Selection of prebiotic molecules in amphiphilic environments
Full clip of Christian Mayer
Vesicles and nucleic acid amplification
Lee's protocells
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