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.
(Excerpt) Read more at scienceblogs.com ...
lets see now, you call people who watch a particular news presentation idots (correct spelling, for you, would be idiots)I do believe, if I'm not mistaken, that Fox is near the top in ratings.....I also think that most of the Fox viewers did not vote for Obama which pretty much clears them of being called idiots.
Talk to frantzie
dumbass liberal- THEY DIDNT WRITE THE DAMN STORY
More hogwash junk science ...
You think scienceblogs is the Left? Or do you think that the only reason someone might distrust Fox News’ reportage on science is *because* they are from the left?
Perhaps everything is political with *you*. That could be why you react the way you do.
don’t be an idiot.
Why am I an idiot? You didn’t answer my original question.
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