[tremon]

I feel articles such a this are important, even though we already knew the problem it's describing. Shoddy science and shoddy journalism should be called out in the strongest words possible, and I'm glad this article does:

Despite the link to the article in the “press release,” nobody at UTA [..] apparently could be bothered to read the article. I shouldn’t, therefore, be surprised that most other people [..] have likewise ignored the article. While not surprised, I am disheartened to see that even purportedly reputable, pro-science sites that typically demand “evidence” and “data” expend no effort to read the original article

In the best case, Cuntz et al. [..] would simply confirm what Herschberg and Mebius concluded two decades ago [..] There is nothing new here—their newer methods do not justify more than a paragraph.

We have a poorly constructed article [..] authors all lack expertise in the field [..] conclusions border on indefensible [..] writing and style is Wikipedian [..] risks violating scholarly norms and practices with respect to citations and intellectual integrity