Archive: Peer Review, Amoebas, Self-Organization, Mars, Stomach Acid, Cholesterol, Junk DNA
November 22, 2024
Here are some of the stories we were reporting in late November 2001, restored from archives.
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Evaluating Claims of Oldest Fossil Microbes
December 21, 2017
Are these fossils 3.45 billion years old? Are they even fossils? Serious questions need to be asked when the news gets excited about world records for oldest life on Earth.
NASA Throws Tax Millions to Evidence-Free Astrobiology Projects
October 9, 2014
Astrobiology has yet to establish that it has a subject to study, but NASA is giving millions of tax dollars to multiple teams, including SETI researchers.
Are Scientists Capable of Stupidity?
December 2, 2012
Scientists are only people, and most people do or say dumb things sometimes. You can decide how to classify these "scientific" ideas.