[meteorite-list] "POLONNARUWA METEORITE WITH EVIDENCE OF LIFE FROM OUTER SPACE...."

From: Jodie Reynolds <spacerocks_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:51:44 -0800
Message-ID: <457348635.20130113185144_at_spaceballoon.org>

We need to be a little careful of the "Journal of Cosmology".

Although they claim to be peer-reviewed, as blogger PZ Meyers so
eloquently describes them:

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" It doesn?t exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly
website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint. For a while, it seemed to be entirely the domain of a crackpot named Rhawn Joseph who called himself the emeritus professor of something mysteriously called the Brain Research Laboratory, based in the general neighborhood of Northern California (seriously, that was the address: ?Northern California?), and self-published all of his pseudo-scientific ?publications? on this web site."
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They've gotten whacked for "publishing" these claims before:

http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-refutes-alien-discovery-claim-110307.htm

From Bad Astronomy:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/07/followup-thoughts-on-the-meteorite-fossils-claim/#.UPNxZ3fSrLc

http://rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/2011/03/is-this-claim-of-bacteria-in-meteorite.html


etc, so-on, ad-nauseam.

Give me a call when it appears in Science, Nature, Space Science Revue, Astrophys, Astron_J Planetary and Space Sci, Advances in Space Research, ... ;-)

--- Jodie


Sunday, January 13, 2013, 1:42:21 PM, you wrote:

> What a pile of steaming crap article! I love how they have put out
> a "scientific" paper finding life, in two weeks (I returned from Sri Lanka on the 29th).
> The meteorite which fell there on 18 dec was a chondrite, then in
> typical 3rd world fashion, meteorites were hitting all over the
> country nightly, setting fields and houses on fire, killing dogs etc!
> I wouldn't bother trying to get a piece of this one, it is most
> likely bat crap or something similar:)
> Michael Farmer

> Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 13, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Tom Randall <tommy2005 at hvc.rr.com> wrote:

>> http://bit.ly/UXjYZc

>> Regards!

>> Tom
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 Jodie                            mailto:spacerocks at spaceballoon.org

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