Not sure what I am supposed to have ācalledā here. It doesnāt appear to have been released yet in full, so it will be interesting to see whether Tour expresses any sort of opinion of his own on the matter or merely provides a platform to Sanford, or perhaps even plays a small game of occasional devilās advocate.
That last point is rather moot of course since Tour have no qualifications to speak of to make him able to provide any sort of substantive rebuttal to Sanford.
Iād be extremely surprised if Tour is going to be remotely combative with Sanford. Iām sure heāll toss him some questions that he might imagine some biologist make, but I doubt heās going to press Sanford much on a field so outside of Tourās own expertise as population genetics is.
You implied you think Tour doubts the evolutionary model
Iām assuming he thinks Sanfordās model has some merit, to risk getting flack for having him on his show. And based on being willing to say what he said in the last two seconds.
Yes definitely, but Tour is also very good at saying stuff that make people like @Swamidass incapable of understanding that, so I expect that trend to continue even as Tour provides a platform for Sanford to spread his misinformation.
We could imagine Tour say something like āI take Genetic Entropy to be fundamentally undermining of the whole evolutionary biology projectā, which might serve to convince Swamidass that Tour really is opposed to the whole thing and thinks itās bs, but since heās obviously not going to actually say that it just leaves people like you and me with the capacity to read between the lines to see what Tour is doing.
His model, his H1N1 paper, his lifespan decay, have been plenty disputed here at PS as well as else where. As far as journal publications go, he is ignored not because he is irrefutable, but because he is insignificant and not worth the time and attention.
No. Sanfordās claim is not a theory. Itās a hypothesis which has already been refuted by the available scientific evidence. Until Sanford can supply an explanation for all that refuting data itās a failed hypothesis.
Sanford didnāt propose Genetic Entropy in a paper. He offered the idea in a popular press book. Until Sanford publishes his evidence in a peer reviewed scientific journal heās just urinating into the wind with his Creation āscienceā.