And the skeptics keep chiming in...George Cody on arsenic life

By Carl Zimmer
Dec 7, 2010 5:38 PMMay 21, 2019 9:48 PM

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One of the challenges of writing on deadline is that people are not waiting every moment of the day to answer your questions. My Slate piece on arsenic life was based on a dozen or so responses from an overwhelmingly skeptical group of experts. And now, an hour after my story went live, I got a reply from George Cody, a chemist at the Carnegie Institution who co-authored a major 2007 "weird life" report. Rather than let this thirteenth comment molder in my inbox, let me share it with you. It's a bit technical but illuminating. I've condensed it for clarity (my clips marked by ellipses)--

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