[Elle Bee]

well I hope it's the last we see of that arrogant condescending loon who made the announcement

May she drive her Pris off into the sunset

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[Moonman62]

NASA has become the supermarket tabloid of science.

[muawiyah]

Sorry, read that as “clam” and wondered why NASA was selling clams.

[no-to-illegals]

I hate to admit it but I posted a thread (my second thread post at FreeRepublic during my tenure here) which stated this discovery. I Thank You for posting this thread, (and I Thank) other FReepers who have posted similar threads to yours, which sets the record straight.
In the rush to discovery, mistakes are common for those who step forward to announce something new. Since this was not a new discovery, the norm remains. This is perhaps the best one can hope for, the norm remaining. I commend NASA for stepping forward with this information, since one of their scientists (I think) made the announcement.

[oh8eleven]

NASA =

[elpadre]

it is sad and disheartening that our once unparalleled scientific community has fallen as they have.

In search of grants and self they have failed to follow elemental scientific standards of proof.

The global warming scam is, perhaps, the most flagrant but this story also points out their lack of professional discipline.

[Brilliant]

Junk science does not need to be correct.

[LibLieSlayer]

IOW... nasa “research scientists” fail again.

LLS

[The Comedian]

I have a dear friend who is an actual, real-life environmental engineering scientist at NASA. He's the guy that does all the cutting-edge work on life support systems.

He's friggin' appalled at the intellectual litter box NASA has become.

It's worse than an embarrassment. It's bordering on criminal.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[bereanway]

Given this sort of nonsense:

“In what can definitely be considered one of the odder media clips featuring a U.S. government bureaucrat, new NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told Al Jazeera that “perhaps” his “foremost” objective laid out by President Obama as NASA chief was “to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.”

And given the propagandizing conducted by folks like Hansen why does anyone expect NASA to have an interest in legitimate research? The old NASA has been co-opted for the greater good.

[CharlesWayneCT]

NASA reinforced this notion with an animated graphic of a DNA molecule, in which little orange balls representing phosphorus magically disappeared and were all replaced by green balls representing arsenic.

And people wonder why we don't trust NASA when it tells us there's man-made global warming.

The only difference between this and global warming is that the luddites couldn't figure out how an arsenic-based life form would help their cause.

[onedoug]

i wanna be an scientist 2.

[djf]

I would not call it “backing off” as much as “being totally shot down by decent peer review”!!

[sonofagun]

[Erasmus]

The claims "do not follow from their results," said Simon Silver, a University of Illinois microbiologist who specializes in heavy-metal resistance in bacteria.

[Erasmus]

Here it is with the deletion of the right-angle-bracket-eating bacteria:

The claims "do not follow from their results," said Simon Silver, a University of Illinois microbiologist who specializes in heavy-metal resistance in bacteria.

You'd think that Simon Silver would be specializing in precious-metal resistance in bacteria.