The word may appears in the headline. Each time the word may appears in a headline we may assume that the article is total speculation. The use of the word may ought to mean permit, but meaning is selling at a discount these days.
*You* may "assume" that, but most of the rest of us understand that "may" in a scientific context most certainly is *not* synonymous with "total speculation".
If believing so helps you emotionally cope with all these kinds of discoveries, though, may it bring you some kind of inner peace, while the rest of us follow the evidence where it leads.
I take it to mean they they are being honest. Religious fundamentalists should follow the example.