Carmen Drahl of C&EN Storifies #arseniclife

Now public - the peer review exchange for the controversial and now disproved 2010 paper that claimed a bacterium weaved arsenic into its DNA and biomolecules. USA Today reporter Dan Vergano and the papers investigative team obtained the reviewer comments from NASA through a Freedom of Information Act request. Scientists and journalists had heated discussions about what to take away from the new information, and about whether the whole saga came down to honest mistakes.

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