Who's to say someone didn't just put together a bogus press release and leak it to someone at one of the news pages that 'broke the story'? It wouldn't exactly be the first time that a news site (or paper, for that matter) failed to check its sources before posting such information -- it's usually easier to get the story out first and worry about the retraction later. The few articles that are out there reference practically identical information, so it likely came from the same source. And all of the information on the inventor and writer would have been quite easy to come by... Doesn't this story sound just a little _too_ news worthy? If I wanted to get a web magazine to bite on a hoax, this is exactly the kind of teaser I would come up with.
Or perhaps I'm just trying to pretend it's just a load of BS so I don't have to wonder what it is for the next couple of years!
Jocephus
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Listen to your bullshit detector!
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Who's to say someone didn't just put together a bogus press release and leak it to someone at one of the news pages that 'broke the story'? It wouldn't exactly be the first time that a news site (or paper, for that matter) failed to check its sources before posting such information -- it's usually easier to get the story out first and worry about the retraction later. The few articles that are out there reference practically identical information, so it likely came from the same source. And all of the information on the inventor and writer would have been quite easy to come by... Doesn't this story sound just a little _too_ news worthy? If I wanted to get a web magazine to bite on a hoax, this is exactly the kind of teaser I would come up with. Or perhaps I'm just trying to pretend it's just a load of BS so I don't have to wonder what it is for the next couple of years! Jocephus --- Listen to your bullshit detector!