There has been a big backlash over the publication of the article in Science that claims to have found a species of bacterium in Mono Lake that can use Arsenic instead of Phosphorous in the creation of several key components of itself (like it's DNA). A pretty large cadre of microbiologists have said, at their most charitable, "That paper should never have been published". People would like to think that there is a bacterium that can do what the authors claim it does, but the evidence seems to be mounting that their research was shoddy at best and very possibly flat out wrong.
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