Top scientists: NASA blew it - arsenic-life study flawed
Did NASA blow it? Some think so…
NASA rushed to tell the world about a new lifeform discovered right here on Earth. The strange new life, found in the Mono Lake region of California, seemed to be a unique arsenic-based carbon life instead of the phosphorous-based life ubiquitous to all other life on the planet.
Perhaps the space agency’s December 2, 2010 news conference was a bit premature. In fact, perhaps it never should have been held at all.
Why scientists are upset
Microbiologist Rosie Redfield of the University of British Columbia was as eager as her colleagues when she heard the news about the newly discovered microbe that NASA had dubbed GFAJ-1.
After finishing reading the evidence that NASA had submitted to the publication Science in the article entitled “A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus,” Redfield was greatly disturbed.
NASA’s GFAJ-1 microbes
Contacted by Slate.com, Redfield admitted her deep reservations about the NASA claim and stated that “I was outraged at how bad the science was.”
Scientists began posting their amazement and disappointment with the NASA claim within a day after it was made. Many entered scathing reviews of what they thought of the science and the methods used to support the contention that the life was markedly different than anything previously found. Redfield too posted her own reactions on her personal blog. Her report was little short of a blistering attack.
Now, more than two weeks after the NASA news conference, a consensus of biochemists and microbiologists agree that the NASA argument is very weak and failed to make its case.
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