Reply #22: Yeah, I read those peer reviews back when I was in school.

[sofa king]

Back in the early 90s, as an aspiring (and failed) chemist. Virtually all of the reviewers said the experiment was bullshit and irreproducable--in fact, I don't think the results were ever reproduced, by the scientists who broke the news or anyone else. My poorly learned schooling tells me it's crap, but you obviously shouldn't take it from me--I'm a historian now, and I'm still a shitty chemist.

No reputable news source had the balls to challenge the peer-review results. Now, that Chernikov radiation stuff is finally getting some traction. That, however, is a totally different story from the one which began with some dirty Erlenmayer flasks way back when. Check out the archives at www.newscientist.com for the outlook on that new stuff.