Challenging What NASA Knows About Asteroids

I have serious problems with this article's headline: "Two years ago, NASA dismissed and mocked an amateur’s criticisms of its asteroids database. Now Nathan Myhrvold is back, and his papers have passed peer review."

The two people who actually did the mocking and dismissing are a UCLA professor and a JPL employee, not NASA employees. The only person who's legally allowed to speak on behalf of NASA (David Morrison) says what this guy is doing is great, and somehow that means NASA "mocked and dismissed" this man's claims?

I get that the author and the editorial staff (who likely chose that headline) are shooting for a David vs. Goliath angle, but really?

Really interesting article. Wish Myhrvold's research had been available in 2013, seemingly the last time the Senate Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee (jurisdiction over civilian space issues, i.e. NASA) had a hearing on space threats like asteroids.

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID...

The hearing featured Dr. Ed Lu, who leads the B612 Foundation, that's trying to launch their own satellite for observing city-killer asteroids (remember Chelyabinsk?). But I haven't seen any news about their work in years...

Glad others are taking a look as well.