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Jul. 13, 2012
What Happens When Scientists Get It Wrong?
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Reporting in Science, two teams of scientists say they were unable to replicate the results of a 2010 study claiming to have found 'alien life' on Earth--a bacterium that could build its DNA using arsenic. Science journalist Carl Zimmer talks about how the controversy played out online, and how science corrects itself.
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Carl Zimmer
Author, "A Planet of Viruses" (The University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Contributor, The New York Times, Slate
Contributing Editor, Discover
Guilford, Connecticut
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