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Tom Clynes on His Pop Sci Profile of Wolfe-Simon

Posted on October 3, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Last week I wrote Arsenic is Life and the View from Nowhere, about a long, complicated story that journalist and photographer Tom Clynes wrote in Popular Scienc...

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Arsenic is Life and the View From Nowhere

Posted on September 29, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

[Note: Major second thoughts at bottom; post retitled (formerly “Cutting to the Chase on the Arsenic Circus”)] Popular Science has run what strikes ...

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“The Center of Gravity Has Shifted.” Carl Zimmer on the Arsenic Paper

Posted on May 27, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

In a wonderful post at Slate, Carl Zimmer describes the one wonderful thing about the whole #arseniclife paper published last November, and has identified what ...

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Science Publishes “Arsenic is Life” Critiques. Game On.

Posted on May 27, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Alert readers will remember the scuffle that broke out last summer December over the “arsenic-is-life” paper by Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues th...

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Arsenic Author Dumps Peer Review, Takes Case to TED

Posted on March 11, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Back in December, when NASA-funded researcher Felisa Wolfe-Simon caught criticism online for her paper asserting a particular bacteria was incorporating arsenic...

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Arsenic Paper Reviewer Can’t See Out of Ivory Tower

Posted on March 9, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

As the Bug said to Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black (at about 1:20 in clip above) “You don’t get it.” Even as the blogosphere tr...

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Aliens Riding Meteorites: Arsenic Redux or Something New? (updated)

Posted on March 6, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Note: This story exploded after I posted this, often in strange ways. Several updates are at bottom. A new paper has claimed signs of alien microbial life in a ...

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Neuron Culture’s Best of Year

Posted on January 5, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I resist best-of-year roundups when I see the heads — but then find I usually like reading them, and lo and behold, find it instructive to do my own. While most...

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A Funny Arsenic Smell Upstream — What questions is it fair to ask about squishy science?

Posted on December 17, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Are we squeezing everything we should out of the arsenic story? Some would say so. I’m not so sure. In a quick post-mortem yesterday on the Lake Mono bact...

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Arsenic and Primordial Ooze: A History Lesson

Posted on December 13, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

In the Guardian’s weekly podcast today, I discuss the Wolfe-Simon Mono Lake bacteria paper with science editor Alok Jha and astrobiologist Zita Martins. O...

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