Journal article
Reply to commentary by R Duggleby (2019)
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Vol.141, pp.74-78
2019
Abstract
Duggleby (2018) has made a numerical analysis of some aspects of the wide range of phenomena we reviewed in Steele et al. (2018) and asserted " .that panspermia as proposed by Steele et al. (2018) is extremely implausible.” It seems to us that Duggleby has based his viewpoint on a quite narrow and specific model of Panspermia which he supposes to be active in the cosmos. Here we address both his conclusions and his numerical analysis. Our response therefore will be at two levels, his specific analysis and his general conclusions. In the specific section below we show that while Duggleby's numerical analysis appears in part correct it is, in the final analysis, quite irrelevant to Cosmic Panspermia. In the general response which follows we address his unsupported conclusion throughout his critique, namely that … " none of the examples mentioned by Steele et al. (2018) is decisive enough to allow no other explanation."
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- Title
- Reply to commentary by R Duggleby (2019)
- Authors/Creators
- E.J. Steele (Author/Creator) - University of RuhunaS. Al-Mufti (Author/Creator) - University of BuckinghamK.A. Augustyn (Author/Creator) - Michigan Technological UniversityR. Chandrajith (Author/Creator) - University of PeradeniyaJ.P. Coghlan (Author/Creator) - The University of MelbourneS.G. Coulson (Author/Creator) - University of BuckinghamS. Ghosh (Author/Creator) - Indian Institute of Technology KanpurM. Gillman (Author/Creator) - South African Brain Research InstituteR.M. Gorczynski (Author/Creator) - University Health NetworkB. Klyce (Author/Creator) - Astrobiology Research Trust, Memphis, TN, USA.G. Louis (Author/Creator) - Cochin University of Science and TechnologyK. Mahanama (Author/Creator) - University of RuhunaK.R. Oliver (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityJ. Padron (Author/Creator) - Studio Eutropi, Clinical Pathology and Nutrition, Via Pompei 46, Ardea, 00040, Rome, Italy.J. Qu (Author/Creator) - Department of Infectious Disease Control, Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China.J.A. Schuster (Author/Creator) - The University of SydneyW.E. Smith (Author/Creator) - Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astrobiology, Gifu, Japan.D.P. Snyder (Author/Creator) - University of BuckinghamJ.A. Steele (Author/Creator) - KU LeuvenB.J. Stewart (Author/Creator) - National Heart Foundation of AustraliaR. Temple (Author/Creator) - Conway School of Landscape DesignG. Tokoro (Author/Creator) - Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astrobiology, Gifu, Japan.C.A. Tout (Author/Creator) - Institute of AstronomyA. Unzicker (Author/Creator) - Pestalozzi- Gymnasium, 11, D-81247, München, Germany.M. Wainwright (Author/Creator) - University of RuhunaJ. Wallis (Author/Creator) - University of BuckinghamD.H. Wallis (Author/Creator) - University of BuckinghamM.K. Wallis (Author/Creator) - University of BuckinghamJ. Wetherall (Author/Creator) - Curtin UniversityD.T. Wickramasinghe (Author/Creator) - Australian National UniversityJ.T. Wickramasinghe (Author/Creator) - University of BuckinghamN.C. Wickramasinghe (Author/Creator) - University of RuhunaY. Liu (Author/Creator) - University of Alberta
- Publication Details
- Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Vol.141, pp.74-78
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Identifiers
- 991005542245307891
- Copyright
- © 2018 The Authors
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Veterinary and Life Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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