[Robert DeLong]

I seriously doubt the veracity of this story as no big news outlet is reporting it. Besides references to this post, and a simliar post at Linkedin, the post by the source you sited and some science blog are the only ones reporting this story.

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[Robert DeLong]

Correction: There is a 5th site called news.nestia.com.

[roving]

You didn’t search good enough. duck duck go sucks