I'm smelling a random junk-science "result", which happens to push a lot of people's buttons: > The research that gave rise to the dark oxygen discovery was pa

I'm smelling a random junk-science "result", which happens to push a lot of people's buttons: > The research that gave rise to the dark oxygen discovery was partly funded by a Canadian deep-sea mining business, The Metals Company, that wanted to assess the ecological impact of such exploration. > It has sharply criticized the study by marine ecologist Andrew Sweetman and his team as plagued by "methodological flaws". > Michael Clarke, environmental manager at The Metals Company, told AFP that the findings "are more logically attributable to poor scientific technique and shoddy science than a never before observed phenomenon." EDIT: That is followed by other biting criticisms. The strongest one amounts to: The nodules have been sitting there for millions of years. Any sort of electrochemical process that was actually making oxygen in them would have run out of energy long, long ago.