...Yeah, that's because he's an idiot. The Journal of Cosmology is not peer-reviewed. It's one asshole's website. Or as this guy put it:John Funk said:NASA Scientist Claims to Have Found Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life
Until this story decides to try to play in the big boys club, you know, with real scientists, it should not be given ink by any real journalists. With all due respect you should be ashamed of yourselves for not looking into this deeper. Also, where did you get the claim that it's peer-reviewed. Where's your source on that?PZ Myers said:it isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth. It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint.
Did you read the update to the story at the bottom?BlackWidower said:...Yeah, that's because he's an idiot. The Journal of Cosmology is not peer-reviewed. It's one asshole's website. Or as this guy put it:John Funk said:NASA Scientist Claims to Have Found Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life
Until this story decides to try to play in the big boys club, you know, with real scientists, it should not be given ink by any real journalists. With all due respect you should be ashamed of yourselves for not looking into this deeper. Also, where did you get the claim that it's peer-reviewed. Where's your source on that?PZ Myers said:it isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth. It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint.
EDIT: Actually it seems the site itself claims that. So I take that back. It's not your fault they lied.
Addendum: PZ Myers article [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/did_scientists_discover_bacter.php]
But we're not Terrans are we? No of course not, the real fight is happening somewhere else! The so-called "Queen ***** of the universe" [sub]why is she called that? She hasn't even taken over the system yet![/sub] wouldn't dare fuck with Earth.Ca3zar416 said:I'm just waiting for Xel' Naga artifacts to start showing up and for us to accidentally unleash the zerg.
they tried that in independence day...and they got LAZZOOORRDianrocks6495 said:By then it will be too late! I for one, welcome our new alien overlords.scarab7 said:This is big, still skeptical, but I'd like to see this as signs of life. I'll wait until a few papers are published before I start building an alien proof bunker.
Glanced at it...why? ........Oh shit, it reiterates what I said. Did not notice that.John Funk said:Did you read the update to the story at the bottom?BlackWidower said:...Yeah, that's because he's an idiot. The Journal of Cosmology is not peer-reviewed. It's one asshole's website. Or as this guy put it:John Funk said:NASA Scientist Claims to Have Found Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life
Until this story decides to try to play in the big boys club, you know, with real scientists, it should not be given ink by any real journalists. With all due respect you should be ashamed of yourselves for not looking into this deeper. Also, where did you get the claim that it's peer-reviewed. Where's your source on that?PZ Myers said:it isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth. It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint.
EDIT: Actually it seems the site itself claims that. So I take that back. It's not your fault they lied.
Addendum: PZ Myers article [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/did_scientists_discover_bacter.php]