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Originally Posted by Wiseman

Ok, most publications are reviewed BEFORE they are published. It sounds like they just wanted to push this out as soon as possible. I find it odd that they don't show the images of the negative controls ( moon rocks and silicon wafers ). This is sloppy science and even though they show a positive control which is the image of a bacteria found on earth, they need to show what the image of a structure devoid of life looks like to be consistent.

Hoover’s findings were published late Friday night in the Journal of Cosmology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

In order to satisfy the inevitable hoard of buzz-killing skeptics, Hoover’s study and evidence were made available to his peers in the scientific community in advance of the study’s publications, giving them a chance to thoroughly dissect his findings. Comments from those who decided to sift through the evidence will be published online, alongside the study.

“Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis,” writes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Dr. Rudy Schild, who serves as the Journal of Cosmology’s editor-in-chief. “No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to critically analyze an important research paper before it is published.”

Looks to me like this has gotten a thorough peer-review already, yes? The comments will be interesting though.