{"id":133191,"date":"2021-12-28T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T19:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/a-weird-paper-tests-the-limits-of-science"},"modified":"2021-12-28T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T19:26:43","slug":"a-weird-paper-tests-the-limits-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/a-weird-paper-tests-the-limits-of-science","title":{"rendered":"A Weird Paper Tests The Limits of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S4vxoP-IF2M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Been saying this for years!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A summary of decades of research on a rather \u2018out-there\u2019 idea involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"viruses\">viruses<\/a> from space raises questions on just how scientific we can be when it comes to speculating on the history of life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to throw around words like crackpot, rogue, and maverick in describing the scientific fringe, but then papers like this one, from 2018, come along and leave us blinking owlishly, unsure of where to even begin.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 33 names were listed as authors on this review, which was published by <em>Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology <\/em>back in August 2018. The journal is peer reviewed and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/journal\/1873-1732_Progress_in_Biophysics_and_Molecular_Biology\">fairly well cited<\/a>. So it\u2019s not exactly small, or a niche pay-for-publish source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been saying this for years! A summary of decades of research on a rather \u2018out-there\u2019 idea involving viruses from space raises questions on just how scientific we can be when it comes to speculating on the history of life on Earth. It\u2019s easy to throw around words like crackpot, rogue, and maverick in describing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}