This is not just news. It is an academic article published by reputable institutions. If they had published the opposite article it would be even more noteworth

This is not just news. It is an academic article published by reputable institutions. If they had published the opposite article it would be even more noteworthy, being that it would be more revolutionary. Your comment would be true of opinion pieces written by wackos without reputation, that we only read because they validate our intuitions. Academic articles are a different matter.