This thread is 15 years old but according to PZ Myers in 2017 no one has yet been able to replicate Sweitzer's finding
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That’s something I wish the creationists who bring up her work could understand: we want her to be right. I want to be able to go to a databank and download protein sequences from T. rex. I want to see a molecular phylogenetics comparison of Stegosaurus and Hadrosaurus osteocyte proteins. I think it would be awesome to compare sequences from different ceratopsians and assemble a family tree.
What I want and what we’ve got are two different things, though, and if only Schweitzer has the magic hands to extract this information, I’m not going to trust it. I don’t reject it out of hand, but damn, it really needs more replication. At this point I don’t want to see another paper from her ” I want to see it coming from another, unaffiliated lab. That would be better confirmation.
Mary Schweitzer and the mysterious dinosaur soft tissue
Anyone got any gen on this?
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