Tag: Crackpottery

• Arsenic Life, Cold Fusion, and the Allure of Wishful Thinking

  In December 2010, a big story broke: NASA researchers studying a species of bacteria from Lake Mono in California had made a fantastic discovery. The Lake Mono environment is high in arsenic, and the scientists announced they had coaxed a strain of the bacteria into substituting arsenic for phosphorous in its DNA. The implications were…

  Matthew R. Francis

  July 11, 2012

  Personal Musings, Society

  cold fusion, Crackpottery, low energy nuclear reactions, Scientists