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429: Myth-Busting Modern Biology

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The Reification Fallacy

"I'm suggesting that whoever talks to Francis Collins or anybody else, including me, if they say that the genes code for proteins, you ask them, how does that work?" he says. "Because arithmetic doesn't add up." The story is DNA makes RNA andRNA gets out of the nucleus through a door but there's no door because it's too big. He then describes an endoplasmic reticulum that has a secret door in it which leads him to another theory about why buildings are being demolished by invisible exploding unicorns.

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