That's the problem; the closer we look at this the more reason there is to think it was a publicity stunt gone horribly wrong than legitimate science. They so heavily implied they'd found ET while carefully avoiding actually saying so that even in the first thread on it here people were essentially saying, "It's probably NOT an actual ET, they're just hyping a less dramatic discovery that way to get attention". Then we find out that it's a terrestrial organism that simply CAN, under the right conditions, replace phosphorus with arsenic in its DNA. Then we find out that it didn't even do that in its natural environment, but in a petri dish where biologists heavily encouraged it to do so. Now there are allegations the cited DNA data can't even exist. Well, they wanted publicity....