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You better alert the scientists that they missed something, then! That's some serious business, they must be alerted to their failings immediately!Yes, unimaginable that scientists could have made a mistake that a layman could spot, or just said something to create good PR to their mission, even when it's inaccurate.
They also never unwittingly or intentionally BS in their research papers, right? And only a colleague (or a higher level intellect than theirs) could spot a mistake... /s
>Seriously though, do you really think these scientists are making claims, being widely reported, without having made the same conclusions and analysed the situation with all the data, not just that reported through a story on the Internet .. ?
Seriously, similar blunders have happened time and again.
In 1996, scientists at NASA declared that a 6.3-ounce
rock, broken off from a Mars meteorite discovered in
Antarctica in 1984, contained flecks of chemical compounds
— polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, magnetite, and iron
sulfide — that suggested the existence of bacteria on the
Red Planet 3.6 billion years ago. "August 7, 1996, could
go down as one of the most important dates in human
history," intoned one newspaper report. But within two
years the theory began to crack.
Traces of amino acids found in the rock, crucial to life,
were also found in the surrounding Antarctic ice. More
damning, other non-Martian rocks — rocks from the moon,
where it is clear life does not exist — showed the same
"evidence" of life. By November 1998 an article in Science
declared "most researchers agree that the case for life on
Mars is shakier than ever."
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Because it seems you're smarter than rocket scientists. Are you a brain surgeon, then?This particular case aside, you appear to believe that you need to be smarter than X person to be able to spot an error they made. It doesn't take a very high IQ however to see the error in the above idea.
In any case, based on the insults, did you just wanted to lash out on someone to feel better for yourself?