Puddle pusher

You know that I like to spread my love around, and much of it goes to Emily Lakdawalla, who writes the blog for the Planetary Society. She is a great writer, and her chops as a trained scientist give her insight into the topics on which she writes. Emily writes about Mars quite a bit, but today she takes on some Mars pseudoscience in a manner that has made my love blossom. The magazine New Scientist sometimes likes to walk the edge of mainstream science, and I think that's fine as far as it goes, but you have to be very careful lest you tread over the cliff. Unfortunately, they have literally done this in a recent issue. An article discusses the claim that some scientists have found evidence for puddles of water on the surface of Mars. As you might expect, this would be huge news if true. Unfortunately, ...