[tragic]

> Babai has declined to speak to the press, writing in an email: “The integrity of science requires that new results be subjected to thorough review by expert colleagues before the results are publicized in the media.”

Quoth the media ... Apparently unironically.

[grrowl]

I'm okay with Quanta Magazine leaving out the irony; I can imagine the Engadgets and Buzzfeeds of the world would omit his response and draw their own wild conclusions regardless.