Scientists for the first time have confidently identified on Mars a collection of carbon molecules used and produced by living organismshttps://nyti.ms/2Jimko2
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Can I have his email address? I’d like to complain. That tweet has been up for hours and no one has bothered to delete it/retract. And we wonder why people don’t trust the newspapers and ignorance about science is so high....
The next 3 sentences: “That does not prove that life has ever existed on Mars. The same carbon molecules, broadly classified as organic matter, also exist within meteorites that fall from space. They can also be produced in chemical reactions that do not involve biology.”
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The headline in the tweet is plainly false however.
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The headline is “Life on Mars? Rover’s Latest Discovery Puts It ‘On the Table’”. That’s not false.
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