Comment by rubitxxx4
Whether it’s nonsense or not, this quote in the critical assessment is concerning:
> If I were a science journalist writing an article about a supposedly shocking development like this, I would email some experts and check to see if it’s for real.
An attitude like that would have us all believing the earth is flat or that the sun revolves around the earth. After all, experts of the time believed both wrongly.
I agree with that comment. Experts can be wrong, of course, but the null hypothesis is that their opinion is 'more correct' than that of a science journalist.
As an aside, nobody really believed the earth was flat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth.