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Not to totally discount this work based on the author's previous works...but the main listed author of this article works for this site: http://cosmology.com/

I was so excited about these photos before seeing this. I'm kind of bummed.

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Were the photos faked? Is there something wrong with the authors' line of argument? Can you provide the name of your favorite exobiologist who, if they had published an identical paper, you would remain unwaveringly excited about?

When someone has a long history of making false claims, it doesn't mean their current claim is automatically wrong but it does mean their argument for it doesn't count as strong evidence for the claim, IMO.

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