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Originally Posted by razark
why release to an online journal instead of the press conference the engineered arsenic-bacteria got?
We'll see how it plays out.
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Because Like the cold-fusion press conference, that turned into a debacle. Press conferences circumvent the standard procedures for publishing discoveries. Now, in this case, their choice of publications does bring into question the veracity of the discovery. At least this time, on the surface, they are openly and willingly opening this for peer review, in fact they seemed to encourage it, so as you say, we'll see.