In this episode we discuss Open Science. We provide a basic definition of what it is, and provide an example of what it looks like in practice by reviewing the controversy around a 2010 publication by a NASA astrobiology research fellow called “A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus,” which NASA used to claim the existence of ALIENS.

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