Quoted: “In scientific controversies, fights that challenge existing knowledge take several years to settle, at least,” says scientific communication expert Dominique Brossard of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Planck?s distance from today?s world, filled with battling blogs, turbulent tweets and pugnacious press conferences, doesn?t make his message matter any less, Brossard suggests, as we ponder the latest high-profile hullabaloo in science ?NASA?s arsenic microbe kerfuffle.
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