[echlebek]

This isn't an optimistic article, it's a landmark scientific result that people all over the world have been trying to achieve for 70 years.

[anemoiac]

I'm not downplaying the significance of events described by the article, just trying to portray how it might be perceived by a skeptic who's seen misleading headlines announcing "revolutionary breakthroughs" in nuclear fusion tech for years. Hence, the allusion to "The Boy who Cried Wolf."