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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 Sockatume · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The third problem: they refused to engage their critics. They simply stonewalled their peers. That's not how science is done. Compare it to the OPERA neutrino study, which was an equally hyped and unlikely claim, but the authors openly solicited rebuttals.

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    No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?