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The methodological status of origin-of-life research as an experimental science, predicated on deductive logic, is assessed and illustrated by recent examples.

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The title alludes to the essay “In Praise of folly” by Erasmus of Rotterdam (1511).

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Wächtershäuser, G. In Praise of Error. J Mol Evol 82, 75–80 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-015-9727-3

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