Fact-Checking James Tour’s Embarrassing Debate Performance

Video Description

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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvGdllx9pJU Lee Cronin with Lex Fridman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWjEb7Z1k18 Ashkenazy Peptides: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00463-1 Powner Side Chains: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.2c03486 Szostak RNA Linkage Heterogeneity: https://molbio.mgh.harvard.edu/szostakweb/publications/Szostak_pdfs/Engelhart_et_al_2013_NatChem.pdf Deamer Prebiotic Analogue Conditions: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/2/134 Loren Dean Williams Research Page: https://cool.gatech.edu/people/williams-loren-dean Functional Information: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.0701744104 More Information Stuff: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0590.pdf James Attwater Research Page: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/people/james-attwater Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo Research Page: https://www.ias-research.net/people/kepa_ruiz-mirazo/ Kepa Prebiotic Systems Chemistry Review: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24171674/ James thinks no one has demonstrated RNA formation on montmorillonite clay. He's a lying idiot: https://www.nature.com/articles/381059a0 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12458736/ https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/4/3/318 https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/8/3857 https://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: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.202471099 https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1074-5521%2804%2900277-7 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3943892/ https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.0903397106 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652413/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29113-x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920166/ Watch all of my content humiliating James: http://bit.ly/ProfDaveTour Watch my other debunks/debates/discussions: http://bit.ly/ProfDaveDebunk EMAIL► [email protected] PATREON► http://patreon.com/ProfessorDaveExplains Check out "Is This Wi-Fi Organic?", my book on disarming pseudoscience! Amazon: https://amzn.to/2HtNpVH Bookshop: https://bit.ly/39cKADM Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/3pUjmrn Book Depository: http://bit.ly/3aOVDlT