The likelihood of producing certain families of amino acids such as polar and non polar, must also be determined. This classification of randomly produced amino acids is important in protecting genome information because members of the same amino acid family have similar functions in producing the required protein conformation. Amino acids from one family can sometimes be interchanged and still produce a functional polypeptide or protein. The random production of amino acids based on frequencies of m-RNA codons would yield too few (only 18.8%) of the charged amino acids that are critical to produce the hydrophobic interaction required to maintain the correct conformational structure of proteins (Ritter, 1996, p. 69). Only 4.7% of the 64 randomly produced codons would lead to the sulfur-containing types of amino acids (methionine and cysteine) necessary for disulfide bonding in proteins. Random production of the codes for amino acids would also tend to produce a high percentages of nonpolar uncharged and polar uncharged amino acids (62.7%).
He's just mixed up -- he kind of knows what he's talking about but it is words not understanding of the molecules and chemical properties.
"He's just mixed up -- he kind of knows what he's talking about but it is words not understanding of the molecules and chemical properties."
Well, his education, even if you throw out the bogus Ph.D. is not an education in cellular biology, DNA research, or anything else. He's an M.D. That's it.
The thing about articles like this is that they're aimed at an audience that doesn't really understand the articles. Had he submitted this to any journal having to do with evolutionary research or cellular biology, it would have been summarily rejected, not because of bias, but because it's inaccurate.
But, for the intended audience, it sounds all academic and stuff, so it's good enough.
Frankly, I'm not well enough educated in the topic to discuss every aspect of the article. In the few areas where I am, however, it doesn't follow well.
To someone who has no background in these disciplines, however, the jibber jabber sounds pretty good. And there you have it.
If he has truly discovered something worth discussing, there are plenty of journals out there.