A few weeks ago, the blogosphere was all abuzz with a report that life had been found in a meteorite. The Huffington Post ran a blurb promoting the claim with no peer review or cross-checking, and there were numerous posts in all the science blog sites giving credence to the claim and pretty much repeating the authors' arguments without any caveats. But Bad Astronomer Phil Plait immediately ran a post debunking the claim, as did P.Z. Myers from a different perspective. And once you look closer, the evidence falls completely apart.
MORE: http://www.skepticblog.org/2013/01/23/life-in-meteorites-not-so-fast/
