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http://daviddobbs.posterous.com/journal-of-cosmology-going-o...
David Dobbs's Wired article on the "meteorite life" story is worth reading:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/aliens-riding-mete...
> “Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis ... No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to criti…
It does say "before it is published". Presumably you would want to vet a paper with trusted colleagues before releasing it even semi-publicly.
> “Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis ... No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to criti…
Full paper can be found at http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html
The image in the Yahoo news entry is an image of: "Giant bacterium Titanospirillum velox". There are quite a few pictures of life-like forms in the meteorites, why not use one of those?
In older news, the Journal of Cosmology is going out of business: http://daviddobbs.posterous.com/journal-of-cosmology-going-o... David Dobbs's Wired article on the "meteorite life" story is worth reading: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/aliens-riding-mete...
Full paper can be found at http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html
> “Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis ... No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to criti…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
elaborate please, I'm not following entirely
you'd be better served looking at Hanson's posts on the subject. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/11/at-least-two-filters.h... http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/03/very-bad-news.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/11/beware-future-filters.... http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/11/brain-size-is-not-filt... http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/12/berserker-breakout.htm...