Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella
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first heard May 2026
last heard 27 Jun
Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you're always going to end up with just like in any niche, you're going to have one thing filling that space.
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But we don't really know that that's true.
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That is something that is generally observed in nature, but it's not necessarily an absolute rule, right?
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Right.
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So that's one thing that the researchers wanted to test.
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They also wanted to see if RNA itself could evolve, could change over time in response to selective pressure.
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So what they did was they purified an RNA molecule from a bacteria, and they made what they call a self-coded RNA replicase, right?
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So the chunk of RNA that they started with had code for RNA replicas.
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So it coded for the protein that it needed to replicate itself.
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So you have a self-replicating chunk of RNA.
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And then they basically said, okay, now let's see what happens.
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They gave it raw material.
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No.
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It's starting with that, right?
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So again, when this kind of research comes up, the deniers, if you will, can always say what the research didn't show.
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And that instantly happened in the comments to my blog when I wrote about this.
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But because there's so many different steps, you have to sort of break it down and say, we're going to study this step just to see.
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As a proof of concept, can we get from D to E?
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Forget about ABC.
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Forget about everything after that.
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