The NRC reports do mention Levin's opinions if not his specific papers. They don't even dismiss them out of hand despite a scientific consensus which is against them. BD's comments paint the false picture that the NRC has not bothered to review Levin's work. If you disagree with the implication that BD is being intentionally misleading, please indicate why you think he frequently makes such comments.

Further misrepresentation of the issue results from DiGregorio's repeated failure to mention the evidence that Martian organisms should be able to survive transport to Earth via some Martian meteorites and that Martian meteorites routinely fall to Earth uncontained. Why is it he omits this in all his opeds? This is far more misleading than failure to explicitly site poorly regarded journal articles.

Until BD can honestly face up to this evidence, I will consider him nothing but an intellectual fraud. His continued siting of Hoyle's decades old rejected flu from space theories while rejecting the idea that protected organisms can be transported from Mars indicate either intellectual fraud or an inability to realize even straight forward implications of theories he supposedly supports. He also seems either unable to comprehend or to admit that the lack of evidence for Martian microbe transport to Earth is more indicative that life does not exist there than that it can't be transported here. Either dishonesty or intellectual ineptitude makes him unqualified to be the judge of good MSR science he tries to promote himself as.

Regards,
Mark