War Over Arsenic Based Life

Antipater writes "Slashdot readers may remember the announcement and ensuing controversy six months ago over the NASA discovery of microbes that can supposedly incorporate arsenic into their DNA. Now, The Washington Post reports that Science has published a collection of eight scathing critiques of astrobiologist Felisa Wolfe-Simon, her methods, and her conclusions. Wolfe-Simon is starting to fire back and gather her own allies — one wonders if we're in for another cold-fusion style science war."

Comments

Where are the scathing critiques of climatology?

[Anonymous Coward]

Any healthy science has this type of debate going on. It weeds out the incorrect conclusions while strengthening the correct ones.

Yet, when it comes to climate science there is almost none of it at all. It is as though nobody is interested in challenging the conclusions of anyone else. I never understood this.

Re:Scientific Method

[Spy Handler]

if that's the case then global warming is not a science.