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 ...
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Anyone doubt the microbes are alive and well in the White House.
Fox news is a joke. Not much better than the rest of them.
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.
Haha
I’ve been interested in science long enough to be skeptical of claims like this one. As usual, the media makes things worse.
Why are they talking about bacteria in meteroites in a jounal about hair dressing?
Looks like a typical Obama voter.
Well, if you have to ask that question, it just shows how much you know!
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
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.
looks like h pylori
You know, I was just thinking it looks like some kind of extraterrestrial turd.
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..... ;^)
A cell of H.pylori, a bacterial pathogen of the human stomach
I'm surprised the author didn't find some way to slam Sarah Palin in the article.
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