To be honest i'm not sure their paper is that much more flawed than many papers of this type are - after all the point of publishing a paper is simply to initiate discussion, encourage people to repeat the experiment and prompt for counter arguments. They can't answer all the questions in one paper. I think the mistake many people make is attach too much weight to one lonely science paper, rather, we should wait until others have repeated/refuted the claims.
I think the problem comes from a PR point of view when they do 'world wide' announcements, that are over hyped up. They seemingly didn't learn from the Martian meteorite life one did they.. The danger of using the 'NASA' name to seemingly add creedance to a claim in this way, is at some point you are going to shoot yourself in the foot, and when (if) they do ever find real alien life, is any one going to believe it? Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JoshuaTreeMuseum Sent: 08 December 2010 08:00 To: [email protected] Subject: [meteorite-list] NASA Finds New Life Form What's up with the NASA junk science? First it's psuedo-fossils in meteorites, now a phony not-new life form. What's next, cold fusion? ------------------------------ For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. (SW) Phil Whitmer And, the blowback: http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas .html http://www.slate.com/id/2276919/ ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us. Email [email protected]. You should not copy or use this email or attachment(s) for any purpose nor disclose their contents to any other person. GENERAL STATEMENT: Southern Scientific Ltd's computer systems may be monitored and communications carried on them recorded, to secure the effective operation of the system and for other lawful purposes. Registered address Rectory Farm Rd, Sompting, Lancing, W Sussex BN15 0DP. Company No 1800317 ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
