Well, it IS Nature, which IIRC, is an EXTREMELY leftist publication.
This is exactly why I am skeptical of the article. It is actually “Nature Communications” which is a subsidiary of Nature. And it is stanger than that; authors pay to have their papers published in this journal. Nature Communications charges a minumum of $5700 to publish a "paper" which is a high price compared to most similar journals.
“Nature realised that there was so much good science now that there was room for another general interest journal, and they invented Nature Communications and made it open access, charging people relatively high production costs (or page charges) to support its operations and turn a profit. It worked. Researchers were happy to publish there because again the journal leveraged the Nature name.”