I would say reading this article was a good exercise in testing my critical thinking, because I could feel all the warning red lights flashing one by one while

I would say reading this article was a good exercise in testing my critical thinking, because I could feel all the warning red lights flashing one by one while reading it: even though it would have been a marvelous discovery, I was really not ready to accept it without questioning it a bit further. An interesting hoax idea nevertheless!