Science and Scientology are 2 VERY different things.
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This was published in a peer-reviewed journal and will, no doubt, receive an incredible amount of scrutiny.
That being said, I will wait until I see some of the responses to the study before I make my mind up about it.
To me, given the immense size of the universe, it would be shocking if there wasn't life somewhere else out there. The surprising bit is if this life happened to strike us while on-board a space rock, one would infer from that that life is more common than we thought, leaving open the possibility for other more advanced evolutions too. Exciting stuff.