Showing posts with label astrobiology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astrobiology. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2026

Astronomers Keep Using Bad Reasoning About Extraterrestrial Life

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  For many decades scientists have been asked about the possibility of extraterrestrial life.  Again and again they have been posed these qu...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

The Faulty Figures in an Astrobiology Paper

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  The 2022 science paper "Life beyond Earth: How will it first be detected?" by Chris Impey has some figures designed to cause us...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

We Have No Robust Evidence of Nucleobases on an Asteroid

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 In the science news on the day I am writing this post, we have yet another dubious science-flavored headline. It is a press release  talkin...
Monday, March 23, 2026

NASA's Diminished Credibility on the Topic of Extraterrestrial Life

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We hear these days quite a bit about "AI slop," error-containing output from AI programs. But it seems that an even worse problem ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Problems With the Vickers Paper Polling Scientists About Extraterrestrial Life

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 In 2025 there appeared the paper "Surveys of the scientific community on the existence of extraterrestrial life" by Vickers et. ...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

"Crying Wolf" Astrobiologists Are Squandering Their Credibility

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Charles Darwin never had any decent explanation for any of the more impressive organization marvels of biology. The claim that he had such a...