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Old 21-August-2007, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Noclevername View Post
Peer review is opinion; educated opinion, yes, but still hardly infallible. That's why one never relies on only one, or even a few, papers, tests, or experiments; it's the total weight of evidence that matters in the end.
I agree, but no one suggested infallability.
More often than not skeptics of an idea call for peer reviewed evidence, but here it seems you, among others, might simply dismiss the claim that this supports panspermia.
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