Tag: carbohydrates
Another War of Words: Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard
Tour didn’t shout. He didn’t call anyone an “idiot.” He never called Cronin a “bad chemist.” And Tour’s scientific challenges were entirely reasonable.
Do Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Point Toward the First Life?
Abiogenesis is the prebiotic process wherein life, such as a cell, arises from non-living materials such as simple organic compounds.
Purifying Bad Results: How Origin-of-Life Researchers Cheat via “Relay Synthesis”
This is not a question of scale — even if the “chemist’s flask” were the entire Earth.
New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality on Origin-of-Life Research
In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around.
James Tour Video Series on the Origin of Life — Synthesis of the Building Blocks
“The analogy that comes to mind is a golfer, who having played a ball through an 18-hole course, assumed the ball could also play the course in his absence.”