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Remember the news story about alien life that turned out not to be about that at all (here, and links therein)?

Well, in a triumph for open science advocates everywhere, Rosie Redfield has started trying to replicate the GFAJ-1 growth experiments, and is reporting progress on her own blog. (It’s the reporting progress thing that is new here, not the replication. Usually we don’t get to hear about replication–or even rebuttals–so this is undoubtedly a Good Thing. Whether NASA or the mainstream media will take any notice is another matter.)

It’s already telling that Redfield’s phosphate-depleted growth conditions contain less phosphate than Wolfe-Simon’s. Pass the popcorn, please.