Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella
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1,490 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
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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I just want to know, can we get from D to E?
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That's what the study is showing.
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And to say, well, it didn't show all the steps leading up to and following.
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Of course it didn't.
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It wasn't designed to look at that.
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Right.
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That wasn't the hypothesis.
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It's not the question trying to answer.
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And if you're waiting for us to evolve life in a Petri dish, keep waiting because that's not going to happen.
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We're talking about something that happened in the oceans of the world over millions of years.
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And so that's not going to happen.
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We're not going to be able – maybe we might simulate it one day in a quantum computer simulator.
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Oh, we will.
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But we're not –
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Going to reproduce it.
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Yeah, I think you're right.
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I think that's going to be a really important line of evidence going forward.
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So anyway, they wanted to know what happens if we somehow get to that self-replicating RNA molecule.
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What's next, right?
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That's a very common rhetorical device.
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