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With the wide media coverage this article received, it's fair to say at least 100,000 people saw the headline or read the article. Most of these people took th
by DevX101 15y ago
With the wide media coverage this article received, it's fair to say at least 100,000 people saw the headline or read the article. Most of these people took the 'discovery' at face value.
It's conceivable that a tech writer at CNN, New York Times, or some other more mainstream news outlet was getting ready to hit the send button to their editor.
This post was credible, timely, and well reasoned. Whether he had second thoughts or not, I think the good done by combating misinformation outweighs whatever reason he had for taking down the article. Though I would have preferred to have linked to the original post.