If you reread CAREFULLY what I said, you will see that I never said anything about the existence of "Martian" halophile bacteria. What I said was that a strongly saline environment is no barrier to life. That being proven by the existence of such life in saline solutions as strong as any that might exist on Mars (i.e. saturated salt solutions). A saturated salt solution is the same on Mars as on earth. So your nutcase theory about "purely Martian data" is so much bullshit.
"Our calculations indicate that the salinity of well-documented surface waters often exceeded levels tolerated by known terrestrial organisms."
And I'm telling you that these "researchers" don't know their asses from holes in the ground. I've done work with research groups that worked with exactly such halophilic organisms.
For all we know, the original source of life on earth might well have been halophilic bacteria, living in hot springs deep inside the earth, well before conditions on the surface were such as to allow life.
Bullshit! I did read what you posted carefully and this is what you posted.
Any organisms would have evolved for the specific environment of high salinity.
Evolved means that the organisms were required to adapt to the evironment. The point of the article is that the organisms did not have an environment in which to spring into being abiotically. Show me the theory that has high levels of salinity as the starting environment for life. And any theory that I have heard of requiring salts also requires a gradient, IOW low concentrations are in the picture.
As for your belittling of the researchers, show us your peer reviewed paper on the subject.