Tag: origin of life
Lancet Hydroxychloroquine Paper Scandal Illustrates Scientific Bias, Not Only in Medicine
It’s a particularly crude example of how confirmation bias works — how else would you explain this story? — not only among lay people but among top researchers.
Neuroscientist: Neuroscience “Is a Failure”
“How many other scientific disciplines have utterly failed to explain the salient phenomenon of the system they study?” I can think of one.
Evolving a Self-Replicating Molecule Is a “Purple Unicorn”
Eric H. Anderson tells of Richard Dawkins’s glib assurances that the mystery of the origin of life is one not far from being solved.
Book Excerpt: A Factory That Builds Factories That Build Factories That…
“How close are we to understanding the origin of life?” a radio moderator asked atheist biologist Richard Dawkins.
On the Origin of Life, Here Is My Response to Jeremy England
The most promising candidate for a “natural engine” is proton flows across thermal vents that theoretically could generate high-energy molecules.