{"id":614,"date":"2005-02-19T12:43:43","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T07:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madmanweb.com\/2005\/02\/19\/nasa_says_there\/"},"modified":"2005-02-19T12:43:43","modified_gmt":"2005-02-19T07:13:43","slug":"nasa_says_there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/2005\/02\/nasa_says_there\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA says there ain&#8217;t no life on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that story about evidence of life being found on Mars? Yes, the same one that made <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/1024473.cms\">front page news<\/a> on our beloved Slimes of India. Well, it wasn&#8217;t quite true.<br \/>\n<a title=\"NASA - NASA Statement on False Claim of Evidence of Life on Mars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2005\/feb\/HQ_05052_mars_claim.html\">NASA just said so.<\/a> But guess who broke the news <i>before<\/i> NASA put out its official release? It was the excellent astronomy-related site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/phpBB\/viewtopic.php?p=418683#418683\">BadAstronomy.com<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo be fair, the Slimes of India was not the only one to pick up the news. News sources like MSNBC and Boston Herald carried it too. What really gets egg on the face of ToI is that they didn&#8217;t bother crediting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/mars_life_050216.html\">the original source<\/a>, Space.com, for the story. In their usual style, they dispensed with the attribution, making it look as if it was their own story. If they had credited Space.com, they could at least have saved face and passed the blame on to them.<br \/>\nWill ToI print a retraction or follow-up? I&#8217;m betting they&#8217;ll keep quiet about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that story about evidence of life being found on Mars? Yes, the same one that made front page news on our beloved Slimes of India. Well, it wasn&#8217;t quite true. NASA just said so. But guess who broke the news before NASA put out its official release? It was the excellent astronomy-related site, BadAstronomy.com. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}