Last month we learned that the process used for searching for signs of life on Mars might be destroying the very thing it was looking for.
Cue the conspiracy theorists:
"Have attempts to explore Mars been secretly scuppered by religious scientists keen to keep planet Earth “special”? Have they been hiding their sabotage under a veil of incompetence? Or is it that scientists really can be astonishingly incompetent without any outside help?"
I prefer the latter. After all, 50 percent of even rocket scientists are below average.