Update: see below. Science Magazine is trying to bully me. Keith’s note: Science magazine is retracting a NASA paper they published 15 years ago – “A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus“ – but they are not saying exactly why they are doing so – other than a new standard they just invented. And it took them 15 years to figure this out. Statement from NASA associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate Nicola Fox: (more below)

The Wrong Stuff: NASA Dismisses Arsenic Critique Because Critical Priest Not Standing on Altar, Wired “What he fails to see or refuses to acknowledge is that Rosie Redfield is a peer, and her blog is peer review. NASA has bungled its presentation of this paper from start to finish. It makes worse by trying to dismiss critiques this way. This is the wrong stuff.” NASA’s arsenic microbe science slammed, CBC […]