SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - NASA press conference...aliens?

Over the past days, I repeatedly read about biologists voicing increasing criticism of the NASA study, accusing the authors of methodological flaws, sometimes even dilletantism. The criticsim first came from British, Canadian and German scientists, but then from Russia, other European countries and finally all the world, it seems. It seems the autzhors, and NASA, are under fire.

If I understood it correctly, this Blog entry by micro-biologist Rosie Redfield from the university of British Columbia in Vancouver was the first salvo against the NASA study.

http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/...ria-nasas.html

I'm surprised that it gets relatively little coverage. But maybe I just miss the show.

Quote:

I don't know whether the authors are just bad scientists or whether they're unscrupulously pushing NASA's 'There's life in outer space!' agenda. I hesitate to blame the reviewers, as their objections are likely to have been overruled by Science's editors in their eagerness to score such a high-impact publication.

Again: the author is an internationally known micro-biologist herself.