Mark Eby wrote:
It is a little curious that the ALH team is so quick to reply in this fashion.

Alex writes:
As Keith Cowing pointed out, the ASU press releases were released in a similar vein. At any rate, considering that the paper actually states, rather starkly,:

"Both [Friedmann et al. and Thomas-Keprta et al.]'s arguments are flawed",

one might well expect the JSC team, in advance of future publication, to defend their work publicly. Moreover, one will note that no less a personage than Allan H. Treiman, who has been a bete noire of the JSC team and their intepretation of ALH84001:

see http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/lpi/meteorites/alhnpap.html

criticizes the Buseck et al. paper:

see
http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2001/Meteorite_controversy.htm

Alex R. Blackwell
University of Hawaii