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The article is written by a journalist I bet. I would be very surprised to find it was written by a scientist.
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In the posted link it is witten:
NATURE CORRESPONDENCE
I hope you know what it is.
Then there is a reference to the original article:
Nature, Vol. 394, No. 6691, p. 313 (1998) © Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
or THE LINK
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal.../394313a0.html
You can actually buy this article for a small fee, if you doubt that the link correctly reflects its content.
And in the end there are names of the autors:
Edward J. Larson
Department of History, University of Georgia,
Athens, Georgia 30602-6012, USA
e-mail:edlarson@uga.edu
Larry Witham
3816 Lansdale Court, Burtonsville,
Maryland 20866, USA
It seems that you don't even tried to think about it and check anything, claiming that 'this is journalist'. This shows the difference between scientists, who try to tests everything and open to new ideas and believers who choose only the right things to believe.