With evidence of a false portrayal in hand, have the tables now turned such that a YouTuber’s agenda to troll Dr. Tour has become elucidated? You decide. In this episode, Dr. Tour discloses email communications with his friend Dr. Bruce Lipshutz, an…
With evidence of a false portrayal in hand, have the tables now turned such that a YouTuber’s agenda to troll Dr. Tour has become elucidated? You decide. In this episode, Dr. Tour discloses email communications with his friend Dr. Bruce Lipshutz, and we see how Dr. Lipshutz never approved how the YouTuber elected to misappropriate Dr. Lipshutz’s video clip. Dr. Tour’s exposé uncovers how the YouTuber doctored a video to make it appear as if Dr. Lipshutz’s video clip was responding to Dr. Tour’s February 2021 Abiogenesis presentation, which included Tour’s invitation for collegial critique. Dr. Lipshutz clarifies that the video clip he provided the YouTuber indeed was not in response to Dr. Tour’s presentation, yet the YouTuber falsely portrayed it as such. Furthermore, the YouTuber is proven wrong yet again, as Dr. Lipshutz points out that his video clip was referring to peptide synthesis in a hydrophobic pocket, not synthesis “in water”—something even Dr. Lipshutz said would be “ridiculous thinking”. Dr. Lipshutz affirms his agreement with Dr. Tour regarding side-chain protection, and the two gentlemanly chemists demonstrate how to engage in civil, scientific dialogue. With this, Dr. Tour continues his invitation for scientific critique. Contrast the YouTuber, who, despite being oblivious to invalidation by his own chosen PhD chemistry expert/professor, mischaracterizes video material the good professor sent him, while advancing a bulveristic argument against Dr. Tour and denigrating the intelligence of Dr. Tour’s viewers. Even more, we see the YouTuber admit to canceling opposing thought under his social media profile, effectively monopolizing his own concocted science to his viewers, many who may be in search of chemistry expertise, but are denied true scientific inquiry. Interestingly, manipulation over scientifically uninformed viewers and denying science was falsely accused against Dr. Tour by the YouTuber. As the YouTuber once said, “Ah, sweet irony.”
