It was debunked with lightning speed, but last weekend's report of fossilized bacteria being discovered in a meteorite still managed to fool some of the news media some of the time. Says a National Public Radio blog, "the story has become how a marginal scientific journal managed to hook multiple news outlets into jumping feet first into a discovery that wasn't." Also, a recap and analysis from Columbia Journalism Review.
March 9, 2011
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