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Rosie Redfield
Personal blog · rrresearch.blogspot.comscience
Rosie Redfield writes RRResearch, a personal blog at rrresearch.blogspot.com about science. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Rosie Redfield: No convincing evidence that As has been incorporated into DNA”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Rosie Redfield's blog, linked in threads on the 2010 arsenic-based life claims. Comments cite posts on flaws in those claims and a procedure for testing them; none judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Not your typical science blog, but an 'open science' research blog. Watch me fumbling my way towards understanding how and why bacteria take up DNA, and getting distracted by other cool questions.
Most-linked posts?
- Rosie Redfield: No convincing evidence that As has been incorporated into DNA3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-12-05
What Hacker News says?
Pretty much everything about the "arsenic-based life" claim turned out to be examples of poor scientific lab technique and poor thinking. There is NOT acceptance in the scientific community that arsenic-based life has been found. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/its_not_an_arseni... http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-ba... http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/arsenic-life-under.…
Comment linking /2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html
on “Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites? No.”Submitted Rosie Redfield: No convincing evidence that As has been incorporated into DNA as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI agree that peer review greatly improves academic publishing, because criticism always accelerates intellectual development. But it doesn't have to take the form practiced by contemporary journals. This recent NASA publication[1] is a good example of how the old system can break down, and how peer review can occur outside that system anyway.[2] It's actually already possible for people to publish that way today. PL…
Comment linking /2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html
on “Ask HN: Why aren't scientific journals free on the web?”Submitted Another Meteorite Paper Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSuggestion for a procedure to test claims of arsenic-based life: http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-test-arsenic-d...
Comment linking /2011/05/how-to-test-arsenic-dna-claims.html
on “Further panning of the arsenic life claims”