JoshuaZ comments on Rationality Quotes Thread February 2015 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Vaniver 01 February 2015 03:53PM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 03 February 2015 12:05:53AM 2 points [-]

It's mean, but given the fake NASA discovery that "expands the definition of life" it's funny.

Do you mean the reports of life able to survive in high arsenic environments? In that context it may be important to note that that was poorly done science not deliberate fakery. It is pretty difficult to fake landing on the Moon out of sheer incompetence.

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 February 2015 12:28:56AM 1 point [-]

In that context it may be important to note that that was poorly done science not deliberate fakery.

Yes, but incompetence still doesn't encourage general trust in science and NASA should have known better than to announce the bacteria that supposedly live in high arsenic enviroments as a discovery that "expands the definition of life" at a big press conference.