tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770416962334263857.post2895274444277846130..comments2010-12-02T19:07:55.410-08:00Comments on Beer, BS & Brains: Yet to be VerifiedBeer Bullshit & Brainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17600617616838623575noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770416962334263857.post-2390385600780170602010-12-02T19:07:55.410-08:002010-12-02T19:07:55.410-08:00Okay, after digging around a bit more:
The corres...Okay, after digging around a bit more:<br /><br />The corresponding author hasn't published a peer reviewed paper cited by PubMed since 2005, and has only published five total. He also was the guy that said the SARS epidemic was possibly of extracellular origin.<br />The report these authors produced resides on arXiv.org, and was never peer reviewed that I can tell.<br /><br />In short, lichens seem much more likely.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847755837611116366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770416962334263857.post-31828850812508132892010-12-02T18:53:56.934-08:002010-12-02T18:53:56.934-08:00Info published by the Indian Centre for Earth Scie...Info published by the Indian Centre for Earth Science Studies says that the organisms they cultured from the red rain are lichen-forming algae of the genus Trentepohlia.<br /><br />That report was released in Nov. 2001, but I can't find any publication on PubMed with those authors or referencing Indian red rain.<br />Coloured Rain produces a number of papers from all over the world, but these are typically talking about dust or radioactive atmospheric debris dissolved in rain.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847755837611116366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770416962334263857.post-63975736458666315112010-12-02T18:39:14.623-08:002010-12-02T18:39:14.623-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847755837611116366noreply@blogger.com