Fighting anti-science nonsense and scams: Dave Farina: The Scumbags I've Debunked (The Thinking Atheist podcast)

Science communicator Dave Farina is back to talk about the charlatans and idiots. Buckle up.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/h4j-REoGZmE?si=-P1PEIlcZ_HjrHUM

Chemistry or God? The Battle for Life's Beginnings

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ecL8428uxK0

New Discovery in the Chemistry of Life (Point of Inquiry podcast)

Graham Cooks and his team at Purdue University have discovered a chemical process that has exciting implications for people who believe that life could have emerged spontaneously and through natural means. The idea that the building blocks of life started in a primordial ocean now has a competitor: airborne tiny water droplets.

In this episode of Point of Inquiry, Jim Underdown speaks to chemistry professor and researcher Graham Cooks about his work in mass spectrometry and his discovery that adds an important piece of the puzzle of how life came to be. Does this find have religious implications?
Interview: 

https://pointofinquiry.org/2022/12/new-discovery-in-the-chemistry-of-life/

The fountain of life: Water droplets hold the secret ingredient for building life

“This is essentially the chemistry behind the origin of life,” said Graham Cooks, the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry in Purdue’s College of Science. “This is the first demonstration that primordial molecules, simple amino acids, spontaneously form peptides, the building blocks of life, in droplets of pure water. This is a dramatic discovery.”

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2022/Q4/the-fountain-of-life-water-droplets-hold-the-secret-ingredient-for-building-life.html

Life on Earth might have formed out of thin air and water | Popular Science

"This is essentially the chemistry behind the origin of life," Graham Cooks, an author of the study and professor of analytical chemistry at Purdue, said in a press release. "This is the first demonstration that primordial molecules, simple amino acids, spontaneously form peptides, the building blocks of life, in droplets of pure water. This is a dramatic discovery."

https://www.popsci.com/science/water-peptide-life-earth/

A day to celebrate chemistry’s favorite unit — the mole. But what’s a mole? - The Conversation US

Chemists sure know how to party. And here is the proof. On October 23rd they celebrate their hallowed unit: the mole. Find out what that's all about. ....
https://theconversation.com/a-day-to-celebrate-chemistrys-favorite-unit-the-mole-but-whats-a-mole-104838

Nobel goes to chemists who learned to 'hack' evolution in the lab - The Conversation US

Nature doesn't always make the things we need so three Nobel Prize winners figured out how to fast-track evolution in the lab to create medicines, biofuels and industrial chemicals for modern life. ....
https://theconversation.com/nobel-goes-to-chemists-who-learned-to-hack-evolution-in-the-lab-104369