I thought that he was being pretty clear throughout the article that this was a description of his personal journey into becoming a "believer" - despite how lud

I thought that he was being pretty clear throughout the article that this was a description of his personal journey into becoming a "believer" - despite how ludicrous what he was believing in. I'm hoping that nobody seriously believes the NYT published this article backing the belief that MH 370 didn't crash. I mean, it starts with the title of the story - the key line in this entire story is this: And yet, once I started looking for evidence, I found it. And, just in case people hadn't picked up on his actual thesis, he explicitly states it near the end: "Still, it occurred to me that, for all the passion I had for my theory, I might be the only person in the world who felt this way. Neurobiologist Robert A. Burton points out in his book "On Being Certain" that the sensation of being sure about one’s beliefs is an emotional response separate from the processing of those beliefs."