That is because they did not have Larry. Larry would have kept them in line. (and I mean that sincerely - what Larry knows about the research process is pretty damn cool)
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > http://www.slate.com/id/2276919/pagenum/all > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:332619 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
