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  1. Mars and Left Handed Sugar by jayrtfm · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Easy On-Line Event Ticketing?
    wait, wait, please don't mod this off topic.
    The search for life on mars and developing left-handed or reduced calorie sugar are related to ticket reservations.

    Dr. Gilbert V. Levin's company Spherics does all three.

  2. Mars and Left Handed Sugar by jayrtfm · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Easy On-Line Event Ticketing?
    wait, wait, please don't mod this off topic.
    The search for life on mars and developing left-handed or reduced calorie sugar are related to ticket reservations.

    Dr. Gilbert V. Levin's company Spherics does all three.

  3. Voodoo Science by spamania · · Score: 1 · on Fusion In Sonoluminescence (Again)?

    For an excellent account of Pons & Fleischman and the ongoing [scare-quote]science[/scare-quote] of cold fusion, check out Voodoo Science by Robert L. Park. It's a great insight into how researchers lose their dispassion in the pursuit of knowledge.

    V.S. should be required reading in highschool. While I don't agree with him 100% of the time, Park sheds light on many famous and not-so-famous examples of pseudoscience, snake oil, and hysterical ignorance.

    V.S. comes to my mind often when reading /. Specifically, consider poor Gilbert Levin, featured in the article linked to by this slashdot story, who, after 28 years, cannot admit to the fact that the 1976 Viking probe found no conclusive evidence of life on Mars.

    Less humorous and more thought provoking is the contrast between /.'s take on the Supreme Court's 1993 Daubert ruling and Park's writing on the events that led up to it.

  4. Interesting: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Might Mars Contain Life?
    Tho this post may spank of a conspiracy theory, I find it humorous that data (be it emperical evidence or not) can be crushed to silence. That scientific findings can be relegated as a spiced up "urban legend". What other information has been diluted so to meet with the standards for modern cifilization? That is to say: When a 2nd non-related entity posts their results, the UK in this case, what will the US say after having dismissed the earlier evidence?

    http://www.biospherics.com/mars/

  5. Re:That's not important by digitalsushi · · Score: 2 · on Did Life Originate Underwater?
    S T U P I D H T T P!

    W e l l , I 'l l l e t y o u d e c i d e f o r y o u r s e l f .

  6. Re:That's not important by digitalsushi · · Score: 2 · on Did Life Originate Underwater?
    S T U P I D H T T P!

    W e l l , I 'l l l e t y o u d e c i d e f o r y o u r s e l f .

  7. Re:That's not important by digitalsushi · · Score: 1, Redundant · on Did Life Originate Underwater?
    Point remains: if it did come from Mars, you'd have to figure out how it got there, too. Occam's Razor.

    W e l l , I 'l l l e t y o u d e c i d e f o r y o u r s e l f .

  8. Re:That's not important by digitalsushi · · Score: 1, Redundant · on Did Life Originate Underwater?
    Point remains: if it did come from Mars, you'd have to figure out how it got there, too. Occam's Razor.

    W e l l , I 'l l l e t y o u d e c i d e f o r y o u r s e l f .

  9. Data From the Horse's Mouth (So To Speak) by cybrpnk · · Score: 3 · on Viking Soil Data Points to Life on Mars?

    Dr. Levin, the guy behind the Viking Labeled Release Experiment, has been a lone voice in the wind the past few years about Viking discovering life, even before this latest interest. Check out his data here.

  10. Maybe Viking 1 DID Find Life On Mars.... by cybrpnk · · Score: 2 · on The Viking Landers, 25 Years Later

    "In 1997, Biospherics' President and CEO, Dr. Gilbert V. Levin, announced his new conclusion that his 1976 Viking Labeled Release (LR) life detection experiment found living microorganisms in the soil of Mars. Objective application of the scientific process to 21 years of continued research and to new developments on Mars and Earth forced this conclusion. Of all the many hypotheses offered over the years to explain the LR Mars results, the only possibility fitting all the relevant data is that microbial life exists in the top layer of the Martian surface." Details here.

  11. Links to full text papers by Aetrix · · Score: 3 · on Testing For Life On Mars
    The article mentioned biospherics. There website has the full-text reprints of Levin's articles. Here's some URLs:

  12. Links to full text papers by Aetrix · · Score: 3 · on Testing For Life On Mars
    The article mentioned biospherics. There website has the full-text reprints of Levin's articles. Here's some URLs:

  13. Links to full text papers by Aetrix · · Score: 3 · on Testing For Life On Mars
    The article mentioned biospherics. There website has the full-text reprints of Levin's articles. Here's some URLs: