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You should NEVER go full Hoyle... Wickramasinghe claims alien viruses made octopi... May 19, 2018 4:17 pm RL

Link to paper that should never have been published anywhere…

I have a purely physics background, with very little formal education in the life sciences- but it doesn’t take a PhD in biology to see that these clowns have a real lack of understanding about the nature of viruses… And this stupidity has persisted in their minds for many decades…

The evolution from squid to octopus is compatible with a suite of genes inserted by extraterrestrial viruses. An alternative extraterrestrial scenario discuused is that a population of cryopreserved octopus embryos soft-landed en mass from space 275 million years ago.

    (Actual quote from a “scientific” paper)

    (Actual figure from a “scientific” paper)
  • Why? by podrock 2018-05-19 18:32:02
    • Evolution_of_cephalopods by ER 2018-05-19 17:33:59
      • Want to see some weird fossils? Check out ediacaran biota by podrock 2018-05-19 18:57:40
        • Yeah, I read that book about the Burgess Shale. by ER 2018-05-19 20:12:14
          • Lots of new fossil finds, by podrock 2018-05-20 16:27:46

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