Scientists reply to Web gossip on Mars find
San Francisco Chronicle: It took Dwayne Brown, a leading NASA public affairs spokesman, to tell a news teleconference: "There have been reports over the weekend that NASA had made a major finding that it was withholding from the public and this speculation has fueled a host of rumors."
Neither the White House nor the president's science advisers have been briefed on the new findings by anyone, Brown said.
