Good times.
Some other cases are the first two "discoveries" of the top quark, which were both wrong (and the one in 1984 was by Rubbia who won a Nobel Prize for the W and the Z so he wasn't really a lightweight). Recently, CDF at Fermilab had to retract their W+multijet mystery which might have been a leptophobic Z' boson, but was just that they didn't understand their background (again, everyone kinda saw that one coming as well). Also a couple of the dark matter detectors thought they had some signal, but the recently announced LUX experiment negative results pretty much crushed them. This kind of back-and-forth actually happens all the time. That isn't bad science, that's just science.
In that case as in the Poly-water case, the reason for the initial strange results turned out to be contamination of the Samples. In the Arsenic Life case however the authors continue to deny it and still claim their results are valid. The lead author is now attached to a prestigious institution still doing "science".
Ugh!
Mandrake, how does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual.
MR. PRESIDENT?! I WILL NOT ALLOW A MINESHAFT GAP!!!
...and then all the parallels with the Cat's Cradle novel, by Kurt Vonnegut, heaped on top.
It's like everyone in national security sits around watching movies and reading novels, and then goes out into the world the very next day, and tries to act them out as part of some warped vision of what they think reality should be, given their advantage for shaping world events.
There's something seriously bizarre and disturbing about that.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v233/n5321/abs/233550a0...
Whoever said there are no second acts in America was crazy.
Aren't water molecules held together by relatively strong Hydrogen bonds? And if there are stronger bonds in polywater, what are they, then, covalent bonds?
It's an excellent book and I highly recommend it. Very short too, so it's not much of a time commitment.