Comments on Nelson's Review of GAE

The way James Tour defines what constitutes cheating would make experiments into the origin of life literally impossible. He says that even stepping into the lab, or making a decision of what to put into a flask, is to affect the experiment.

So by definition all experiments are cheating according to James Tour. Even if scientists are trying their best to experimentally simulate a natural environment, for example by having a particular atmospheric gas in a chamber, that scientist will have had to make a decision to include that gas in the experiment, and so is now guilty of cheating according to the principles stated by James Tour.

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