Tom Clynes on His Pop Sci Profile of Wolfe-Simon
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...
Tag: Felisa Wolfe-Simon
Free Science, Funny Science, Darwin, & Some Meta: Neuron Culture’s Top 5 for May
1. The race for May’s top spot wasn’t even close: Free Science, One Paper at a Time, my rescued feature about how too much of science is trapped in...
“The Center of Gravity Has Shifted.” Carl Zimmer on the Arsenic Paper
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 ...
Science Publishes “Arsenic is Life” Critiques. Game On.
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...
Arsenic Author Dumps Peer Review, Takes Case to TED
Back in December, when NASA-funded researcher Felisa Wolfe-Simon caught criticism online for her paper asserting a particular bacteria was incorporating arsenic...
Aliens Riding Meteorites: Arsenic Redux or Something New? (updated)
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 ...
A Funny Arsenic Smell Upstream — What questions is it fair to ask about squishy science?
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...
Arsenic and Primordial Ooze: A History Lesson
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...
The Wrong Stuff: NASA Dismisses Arsenic Critique Because Critical Priest Not Standing on Altar
A NASA spokesperson has dismissed a major critique of the Science arsenic bug paper based not on the criticism’s merits, but on its venue — it appeared in...
Is That Arsenic-Loving Bug — Formerly an Alien — a Dog?
You know that arsenic-loving bacteria briefly mistaken for an alien? The bug, which roiled the science press earlier this week when it rode an unusually high an...