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It purports to be a summary of a peer-reviewed, published research paper. This one: "Life on Earth Came From Other Planets," by R Joseph, PhD Cosmology, Vol 1 2009. It contains a grand total of one paper, the aforementioned article by Rhawn Joseph.
You can read the whole article, which you know was peer reviewed, because it says so in the upper left corner: "Peer Reviewed". If you can't get your crappy paper published in a legitimate journal, invent one!
To his credit, the author of the site, Fred Bortz, shows up to offer objections to the weird quality of the submission; someone named Joy Haiyan Wu, who works with Rhawn, pops up a few times to complain and threaten legal action.
It presents nothing new, makes exaggerated claims about the likelihood of bacterial life surviving in space for hundreds of millions of years (it wouldn't), makes grand claims of revolutionizing our understanding of the origins of life, and offers nothing other than rehashed claims and denial of legitimate scientific hypotheses. You can get a taste of how poor this paper is from just the conclusion. Life on Earth appeared while this planet was still forming. As only life can produce life, only panspermia is a viable scientific explanation as to the origin of Earthly life. The first life forms to appear on Earth were produced by other living creatures who were likely encased in debris ejected by the parent star nearly 5 billion years ago. Well, life had to have come from non-life at some point, logically speaking. The claim that only life can produce life clearly had to have been wrong at some point, and panspermia doesn't get around the fundamental problem: where did the life at that distant exploding star come from? and instead we get a repetition of ten ads flogging Rhawn Joseph's self-published book.
July 23, 2009 10:31 PM Send 'em anything, and they'll spit it back up on the web for you. Oooh, I've been looking for a forum to publish my well researched and extensivly tested paper currently entitled " It's Never Too Early in the Day to Drink - Using New Zealand Time as the New Yardarm Benchmark". It's peer reviewed an all, my girfriends read it and thought it was excellent.
July 23, 2009 10:43 PM I got Access Denied as well and I certainly don't intend to register just to read that crap. I too much spam from registering for various sites as it is.
July 23, 2009 10:50 PM I'm fascinated by the concept that living cells were "ejected by the parent star." After all, I once heard of a space mission to visit the sun: they went at night because it would be cooler.
July 23, 2009 10:51 PM Well, life had to have come from non-life at some point, logically speaking. Well, it's logically possible that life continues all the way back into the infinite past (cf.
That's what my kids did with food they didn't like when they were little. But seriously, don't these dingleberries get it that it isn't "life/turtles" all the way to the beginning/bottom? Well, like one of my sons says, IQ of 100 is actually pretty stupid.
someone tell kwak from his new home at Chris and Sheril's He does seem to have made himself comfortable over there amongst the lightweights and other low-hanging fruit. I cringed when I was reading one of the threads and saw that he'd written a post where he'd announced he'd be offline for a while because he was going to a memorial service.
particularly like this one: Kenneth Harold Troxler's Blog Science is Wrong July 20, 2009 Hi I am a 67 year old High School Graduate with many years of hours in research. Magnetism and gravity were my original targets to study. By 1970 I realized Science had gotten off track with understanding both these subjects. Mr Einstein was on the right track but was diverted by his intellectual buddies who were delving into quantum physics. This branch of Science is fascinating but it was started wrong so they may never finish right! The Quantum world can't be properly explained without finishing the work Mr Einstein tried to explain to them. That being that, through my observance of his Science, that first and foremost God has to be recognized as whom He says He is: "Our Creator". This is the first thing God teaches us in "His Book", The Holy Bible, but Science refuses to learn the "first thing" about God.
July 23, 2009 11:09 PM Oh, this guy is FAR from the first to try this. There's this jackass called Raymond Hoser from Australia, a taxi driver who fancies himself a herpetologist. He constantly "revises" genera of Australian herps with pathetically dubious criteria, and is generally a laughingstock. When even the Journal of Nowhere stopped accepting his crap, he made his own journal, publishing only his own papers. Of course, this is also the lovely person who mutilates snakes for fun - he cuts out the venom glands of snakes without any anaesthesia, analgesia, sterilization or post-operative care.
July 23, 2009 11:18 PM I guess that shoots my theory all to NoTomatoSauce: Recalling that in all legend lay a kernel of fact, reading the fabrications koran, bible, and torah in larger, historical context with other fabrications lain down in stone it is in fact quite easy to afford "Intelligent Design" a measure of credibility. When chariots with wheels of fire flitting about, vast arks propelling the seeds of life across vast empty spaces, and fathers asking of their wives "be this my son, or that of a "giant?" are lain aside the physical record it isn't all that far fetched to supposit that at some point in the past half-million years extra-terrestrial travelers - for whatever reason: pure science, sheer boredom, desperate survival, or profit - genetically interfered with the development of the proto-humans they found roaming the savannahs of Northern and Western Africa. Not only are we but fleas agitating the hide of a far greater organism, but some bastard's abandoned science project, if not cattle, as well. Wrap the twelve percent of your brain you use around that.
July 23, 2009 11:34 PM Ten Bears, our galactic conquest will soon be over, little do the humans realise their coming doom! seriously tho, on the premise that all legend is based on a kernel of fact, you have made up a nice story jumping from that. Pretty much like all religion does, leap after leap after leap ...
July 23, 2009 11:43 PM One correction: "If you can't get your crappy paper published in a legitimate journal, invent one!" should say: "If you can't get your crappy paper published in a legitimate journal, invent an illegitimate one!"
July 24, 2009 12:00 AM the likelihood of bacterial life surviving in space for hundreds of millions of years (it wouldn't), I'm curious about this. The resulting yeast cultures are now used as the base for a micro-brew, I think, in San Francisco. So if a single cell organism can survive the death and fossilization of it's host in amber over millions of years, why couldn't it survive floating around in what's essentially a vacuum for millions of years.
July 24, 2009 12:11 AM OT: PZ, I think you should know that the deaths of 3 teenaged sisters and an older female relative in Kingston, Ontario, found in a car at the bottom of a canal are now being described as honour killings and the parents and older brother were responsible.
July 24, 2009 12:16 AM Just for fun, here's my own crackpot theory: Time-Travel Panspermia. Assume that a rotating black hole, or a cosmic string, or some other general-relativity doohickey can send rocks back in time. Then there could be a time-loop of this sort: an asteroid hits life-bearing planet B; one of them lands on planet B, when then grows an ecology, and that closes the loop. This way, life never arises from non-life, but instead self-sustains in a self-consistent causal loop. If they share our DNA code, then that would be evidence in favor of panspermia.
July 24, 2009 12:22 AM Yes, I want to try this beer badly That's the one. I want to try it too, but I think it'll be awhile ...
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