I've been saying for a long time that that 'journal' that published the meteorite microbes story was a joke: now someone who has also published in the JoC gives us a look at the review process there. It's not very rigorous, as you might expect.
She also gives a good mineralogical explanation of the structures they were seeing (see also Ian Musgrave's summary). This paper's dead, Jim. But don't be surprised if you see it cited in other papers from the fringe astrobiology crowd in the future.
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Melba Ketchum issued a press release announcing that she had sequenced Sasquatch DNA. That was back in November.
Over at the blog Nanopublic, Dietram Scheufele, a professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin, has posted a very useful discussion of our Science Policy forum articl
Friday's entry on safrole inspired a number of comments on what sort of animal it looked like. One person mentioned a chestnut from a few years back: NanoPutians!
You all know that the Journal of Cosmology is complete crap, right?