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Research supported by the NSF and your tax dollars. Taxpayers wallets double-dipped by the AAAS. Summary written by an idiot for 6-year-olds.

And somehow, everyone thinks this is just fine.

The lead author (of the paper, not the summary) herself describes the difficulty and subtlety of the data analysis. Says it took extra time because, "It's easy to be overconfident and there are many ways to misinterpret the data, many ways that small errors can accumulate into significant mistakes, which is why we did not rush our analysis."

So the real story here is we have no access to the analysis, which is the main event, and must accept the brain dead summary by some random science writer.

Welcome to our stupid planet.