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Princeton Team Casts More Doubt On Arsenic DNA Claims

Posted by timothy on from the and-that's-what-science-is-and-does dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team of researchers reports they can't reproduce the most important claim from 2010's controversial 'arsenic bacteria' paper — they find no arsenic in the bug's DNA. Meanwhile, other scientists are looking at different aspects of the bug and at arsenic in biology in general."

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  1. Re:Science! by Amorymeltzer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is how science works!

    You just proved your own point. Science works by independent replication of large claims, so when a large claim is made people try to reproduce it. Nobody in the scientific community wants just one proof of a concept, so others aggressively, if you will, seek to either reject or support the original conclusion. If nobody challenged them, it'd be the least scientific move possible, it'd look like the Catholic Church.

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