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And, again, she is important why exactly?

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Please add a couple of sentences explaining exactly how she changed history. Seems to me that she is not the only person in the world to do research on the origin of life on earth. Has a popular news media ever mentioned her? --155.68.45.99 12:35, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would imagine that "fundamentally revising fifty years of theory about the origins of life" is pretty notable. 24.60.166.137 04:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Exaggerated claims and breach of scientific ethics

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The stated claim that Trainer "in 2004 demonstrated empirically that life could have formed on Earth through the interaction of methane, carbon dioxide and ultraviolet light (sunlight)." is a gross exaggeration of the results of the published papers. Trainer and her entourage (Verne Equinox) also repeatedly fail to give credit to senior co-workers and mentors on this project. Their work concerned the formation of organic atmospheric haze. It had NOTHING to do with the Origin of Life. They actually cite others (e.g., Miller, Miller–Urey experiment) regarding the origin of life on Earth. Trainer most certainly did NOT "demonstrate[] empirically that life could have formed on Earth through the interaction of methane, carbon dioxide and ultraviolet light (sunlight).AdderUser (talk) 10:59, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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