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The first sentence of the article:

  Scientists can’t agree on how the intelligence of our primate relatives, but [...]

What does this even mean? Is editing just not done any more? Something like this as the _first sentence_ of an article make me doubt the quality of the entire article, in fact the entire publication.

[eyeundersand]

Spot on. That the publication didn't find it worthwhile to accurately proofread the FIRST sentence of the article signals (to me) they are not worried about the reader's time and prevents me from taking their article seriously.

[WhompingWindows]

Copy-editing is just another wasteful business expense to be cut for increased profits. Journalism is profit-centric and copy-editors have been cut from the NYTimes, too.

[caymanjim]

I certainly can't agree on how the intelligence of our article author.