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The Journal of Cosmology is closing its doors. Bloggers relying on clicks from picking apart deeply flawed studies are devastated.
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It seems that the NASA-backed research into arsenic-eating microbes had a number of serious flaws that has biologists scratching their heads.
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Peer review, long seen as a feature of any scientific endeavor, is actually a fairly new idea. And you wouldn't believe the stuff that got published as science before it was put in place...
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Got an idea the scientific community isn't listening to? Forget more research and peer review! Go to the people with a conspiracy theory!