RETRACTED – Arsenic Life Controversy – Periodic Table of Videos

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This video features Professor Martyn Poliakoff discussing the issue, with some comments from one of the co-authors of the original paper Professor Ariel Anbar.

The paper in question (now retracted by Science): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1197258
Editor-in-chief’s justification: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/last-step-long-process-arsenic-life
The author’s protest: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu5488#elettersSection

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