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Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites?
Science Blogs ^ | March 6, 2011 | PZ Myers

Posted on 03/06/2011 9:08:21 AM PST by Salman

No, no, no. No no no no no no no no.

No, no.

No.

Fox News broke the story, which ought to make one immediately suspicious — it's not an organization noted for scientific acumen. But even worse, the paper claiming the discovery of bacteria fossils in carbonaceous chondrites was published in … the Journal of Cosmology. I've mentioned Cosmology before — it isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth. It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint. For a while, it seemed to be entirely the domain of a crackpot named Rhawn Joseph who called himself the emeritus professor of something mysteriously called the Brain Research Laboratory, based in the general neighborhood of Northern California (seriously, that was the address: "Northern California"), and self-published all of his pseudo-scientific "publications" on this web site.

It is not an auspicious beginning. Finding credible evidence of extraterrestrial microbes is the kind of thing you'd expect to see published in Science or Nature, but the fact that it found a home on a fringe website that pretends to be a legitimate science journal ought to set off alarms right there.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bacteria; catastrophism; chondrite; extraterrestrial; foxnews; godsgravesglyphs; journalofcosmology; panspermia; rhawnjoseph; science; space; xplanets
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Just a little more perspective on the story.
1 posted on 03/06/2011 9:08:24 AM PST by Salman
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To: SunkenCiv

/mark


2 posted on 03/06/2011 9:14:16 AM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Salman


3 posted on 03/06/2011 9:15:05 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Salman

Anyone doubt the microbes are alive and well in the White House.


4 posted on 03/06/2011 9:17:44 AM PST by Carley (WISCONSIN STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN THE ARAB STREET. UGLY AND VIOLENT)
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To: Salman

Fox news is a joke. Not much better than the rest of them.


5 posted on 03/06/2011 9:19:23 AM PST by Paradox (Matthews has the emotional equilibrium of a pregnant, gambling chihuahua on meth.)
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To: JoeProBono
It has to have some form of human intelligence as it has an “S” on it side, possibly some team, trade association or UNION.
6 posted on 03/06/2011 9:19:26 AM PST by mountainlion
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To: Salman
Fox News broke the story, which ought to make one immediately suspicious

Everything is political with the left. If we discover alien life and they turn out to be bad guys, I'm certain PZ Myers will start off his article with the observation that since they are bad aliens, they must be Fox News viewers.

7 posted on 03/06/2011 9:19:44 AM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: mountainlion

Haha


8 posted on 03/06/2011 9:20:04 AM PST by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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To: Salman

I’ve been interested in science long enough to be skeptical of claims like this one. As usual, the media makes things worse.


9 posted on 03/06/2011 9:23:17 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Salman

Why are they talking about bacteria in meteroites in a jounal about hair dressing?


10 posted on 03/06/2011 9:25:50 AM PST by super7man
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To: Carley

Looks like a typical Obama voter.


11 posted on 03/06/2011 9:26:10 AM PST by JaguarXKE (Life - It's 10 percent circumstances and 90 percent how you react to circumstances - Sarah Palin)
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To: super7man
Why are they talking about bacteria in meteorites in a journal about hair dressing?

Well, if you have to ask that question, it just shows how much you know!

12 posted on 03/06/2011 9:28:34 AM PST by JaguarXKE (Life - It's 10 percent circumstances and 90 percent how you react to circumstances - Sarah Palin)
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To: Salman

Link to the first THREAD on this subject.

Forget Arsenic - Read the ET Life Article NASA didn’t seem to hype at all

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2684337/posts


13 posted on 03/06/2011 9:28:44 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: super7man

Did you see the hair-do on that bacteria ??????

If ever there was a need for grooming tricks, here is one. That hair is out of control.


14 posted on 03/06/2011 9:30:47 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: JoeProBono

looks like h pylori


15 posted on 03/06/2011 9:36:34 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
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To: JaguarXKE
Looks like a typical Obama voter.

You know, I was just thinking it looks like some kind of extraterrestrial turd.

16 posted on 03/06/2011 9:40:02 AM PST by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: Salman

Funny, I thought bacteria came from below, instead of above, like when those Siberian drillers went too deep and recorded human screams 14.4 kilometers into the earth..... ;^)


17 posted on 03/06/2011 9:41:15 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: al baby

A cell of H.pylori, a bacterial pathogen of the human stomach


18 posted on 03/06/2011 9:42:50 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Salman

Yea, they are just like the "Journal of Climate Science"


19 posted on 03/06/2011 9:44:11 AM PST by dila813
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To: vbmoneyspender
Everything is political with the left. If we discover alien life and they turn out to be bad guys, I'm certain PZ Myers will start off his article with the observation that since they are bad aliens, they must be Fox News viewers.

I'm surprised the author didn't find some way to slam Sarah Palin in the article.

20 posted on 03/06/2011 9:53:12 AM PST by GreenHornet
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