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From: Biochmborg@aol.com <Biochmborg@aol.com>
To: chadwicka@swau.edu <chadwicka@swau.edu>; evolution@calvin.edu
<evolution@calvin.edu>
Cc: asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Friday, May 07, 1999 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: Life in the Lab -- Fox and the Nobel Prize
>In a message dated 5/6/99 4:23:06 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
>chadwicka@swau.edu writes:
>
>> References, Please.
>
>I see you are still playing games. I told you where you can find
references
>(at <www.siu.edu/~protocell/>), including a symposium by Fox describing his
>work. I will give more when I post my essay. You in turn ignored my post
of
>Fox's symposium, you ignored my posts explaining where you could find
>references, you refuse to discuss the scientific merits of Fox's work,
>prefering to bad-mouth him instead, and you won't provide any substantial
>biological argument for why Fox could not have created life in the lab.
You
>could easily find those references yourself by going to MedLine (your
>university library webpage whould have a link to it) and searching for
them.
>Why should I do your work for you, when you will probably just ignore me
even
>if I did?
>
>For the benefit of those who, unlike Art, really want to learn about this,
>here is a list of references.
>
>In _Science_:
>
>Fox SW, Harada K. 1958. "Thermal copolymerization of amino acids to a
>product resembling protein." 128:1214.
>
>Fox SW, Wang C-T. 1968. "Melanocyte-stimulating hormone activity on
thermal
>properties of amino acids." 160:547-8.
>
>Fox SW, Harada K, Hare pe, Hinsch G, Mueller G. 1970. "Bio-organic
>compounds and glassy microparticles in lunar fines and other materials."
>167(918):767-70.
>
>Fox SW, Windsor CR. 1970. "Synthesis of amino acids by the heating of
>formaldehyd and ammonia." 179(961):984-6.
>
>In _Nature_:
>
>Fox SW. 1964. "Thermal polymerization of amino acids and production of
>formed microparticles on lava." 201:336-7.
>
>Fox SW, Krampitz G. 1964. "The catalytic decomposition of glucose in
>aqueous solution by thermal proteinoids." 203:1362-4.
>
>Some of the top peer-reviewed journals Fox has been published in:
>
>Annals of the New York Academy of Science
>Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysiology
>BioSystems
>Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
>Journal of Bacteriology
>Journal of Molecular Evolution
>Naturwissenschaften
>
>Some of the people who have replicated Fox's work:
>
>Aristotel Pappelis
>Donald Ugent
>Duane L. Rohlfing
>K- Harada
>Klaus Dose
>Paul Melius
>Koichiro Matsuno
>Peter R. Bahn
>R.M. Ottenbrite
>Alexander T. Pol
>R. Rosen
>Etsuo Kokufuta
>
>In short Art, this is real research, being done by a wide variety of
people,
>who are getting consistent easily reproducible results, and not some
deluded
>person's fantasy.
>
>Rather than rely on your ignorance, go read the scientific literature, Art.
>
>Kevin L. O'Brien