The meteoric alien saga is getting deeply weird. My earlier post covered and tracked this fracas over a paper finding signs of alien life in a meteor. As I said then, the journal publishing it seemed the most interesting thing about it. It has proven the case, and continues to do so. Here’s a snippet of the journal’s latest statement about the critics of the Hoover paper.

Tremendous efforts have been made to shout down the truth, and the same crackpots, self-promoters, liars, and failures, are quoted repeatedly in the media. However, where is the evidence the Hoover study is not accurate?

Few legitimate scientists have come forward to contest Hoover’s findings. Why is that? Because the evidence is solid.

As I noted in my earlier post, several have contested Hoover’s findings, and none of those are listed on the Journal’s list of responses to the paper.