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Nothing Exposes Your BS Bettter Than Your Own Sources
Mark Eby — (archived)

From your recent post of the complete Clark article:

"Recently, it has been suggested in print (Gladman and Burns, 1996; Gladman, 1997) and verbally by a variety of planetary scientists that the newly accepted reality that martian material periodically ejected from Mars and finding its way to earth as meteorites is "evidence" from which we might conclude that back contamination is of minor concern."

Zubrin is not on his own in suggesting the meteorite issue impacts the risk assessment of back contamination. He is supported by the data I have posted before and many planetary scientists. Your own source makes this clear yet you continue to try and paint this false picture. Clark went on to disagree with that assessment and it is legitimate to contest it and claim it is contested, it is not legitimate to claim it is not considered a legitimate point of view within scientific circles. It is a key issue that Race, Rummel, and Nealson did not address. Strange that with all the various angles they chose to disagree with Zubrin on they were unanimous in avoidinng attacking that point.

Regards,
Mark

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