Re: [meteorite-list] Arsenic Bacteria Hoax

2012-07-10 Thread Howard Wu
Have just experienced the Sutter Mill hunt locally and lived to see all the news story that came out of it and if gave me the same feeling. That is typical for what goes for press coverage in science today. I've heard Felicia Wolf-Simeon lecture locally. She would agree with you about the

Re: [meteorite-list] Arsenic Bacteria Hoax

2012-07-09 Thread info
www.moonmarsrocks.com -- Message: 6 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 00:06:11 -0400 From: JoshuaTreeMuseum joshuatreemus...@embarqmail.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Arsenic Bacteria Hoax To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Message-ID: 63BF6FFBB51F40319F12E314B7334D5E@ET Content-Type

Re: [meteorite-list] Arsenic Bacteria Hoax

2012-07-09 Thread Howard Wu
...@embarqmail.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2012 9:06 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Arsenic Bacteria Hoax Turns out it was a bogus publicity stunt: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/journal-retreats-from-controversial-arsenic-paper/2012/07/08

Re: [meteorite-list] Arsenic Bacteria Hoax

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Montgomery
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Arsenic Bacteria Hoax This current news story is as unfortunate as the original NASA story spin of Wolf-Simon's article release two years ago. Hoax implies a deliberate fabrication of evidence. There's no call here to insult

[meteorite-list] Arsenic Bacteria Hoax

2012-07-09 Thread JoshuaTreeMuseum
This current news story is as unfortunate as the original NASA story spin of Wolf-Simon's article release two years ago. Hoax implies a deliberate fabrication of evidence. There's no call here to insult the personal integrity of the scientists for publishing their earlier experimental

[meteorite-list] Arsenic Bacteria Hoax

2012-07-08 Thread JoshuaTreeMuseum
Turns out it was a bogus publicity stunt: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/journal-retreats-from-controversial-arsenic-paper/2012/07/08/gJQAFQb7WW_story.html?hpid=z3 Journal retreats from controversial arsenic paper By Marc Kaufman, Updated: Sunday, July 8, 10:05 PMThe