You’ve got to be kidding me – Robert Sheldon, Uncommon Descent blogger and rocket physicist, has come out with a post on The Procrustean, his personal conservative political blog, defending the arsenic-metabolising GFAJ-1 paper. It truly is a perfect storm of ID proponent meets terrible scientific methodology.
The scientific backlash against the recent NASA-funded paper, which claims that a strain of Halomonadaceae bacteria called GFAJ-1 can metabolise arsenic as a substitute for phosphorus, has been swift and punishing, as anyone involved with the [...]
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