Alex said:
"FWIW, I agree with Nick Hoffman (as well as the vast majority of scientists in the community) that at least three of the four lines of evidence first offered by McKay et al. have been completely refuted or had enough doubt cast on them to make their "interpretation" useless, and that the final leg is being kicked out as we speak. Even assuming McKay et al. are actually correct, their evidence is not strong enough to survive scientific scrutiny and/or to satisfy Occam's Razor."
I agree with you that most scientists would say the case for ALH84001 is unproven, but I wouldn't go so far as to say most scientists believe it is DISPROVEN.
My guess is that, like Treiman, they think ALH84001 in itself is not enough to decide the question of life on Mars.
Bob Clark
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