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Denyse O'Leary
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September 9, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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At Retraction Watch: “Transparently absurd” paper at Elsevier

Denyse O'Leary
September 9, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Peer review
Retraction Watch: Erm, about that concerning peer review process. Elsevier also was the publisher of the equally risible book chapter claiming that COVID-19 came to earth on a meteorite. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 7, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life
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Researchers: Organic chemicals essential for life found in Martian meteorite; Rob Sheldon responds

Denyse O'Leary
May 7, 2020
Extraterrestrial life
Sheldon: The point is that we don't expect to find nitrate and ammonia in the soil of Mars, not unless some nitrogen fixing bacteria put it there recently, because over time it will all come out of the soil as N2 gas. Claiming that the process goes the other way, from N2 in atmosphere to nitrates in soils, goes backwards, from high entropy to low entropy. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 7, 2020
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Researchers: Organic chemicals essential for life found in Martian meteorite; Tim Standish responds

Denyse O'Leary
May 7, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Standish: If the nitrogen cycle isn’t established within a certain time, nitrogen will be removed from the atmosphere and the surface will become rich in nitrate (bad) or, in a reducing atmosphere, ammonia (really bad). The bottom line is that there are speculations that probably get around this, but it is one more needle that has to be threaded for chemical evolution to produce the first life, or a problem for the first life to quickly take care of. Read More ›