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Contra - the nature of just leaving it without such a tag seems to me to be part of the joy of this story.

And risk to get something like War of the Worlds all over again?

That sounds like a perfect result. :) What am I missing?

I take your point, but the article / story itself is obviously a story right from the start. So the only ones 'misled' are those who can't be bothered to read the FTA. I suppose you could argue it's clickbait, but again I'm not convinced.

Agree. And literature is part of academia, too.

How exactly would it "help"?

Kids these days, with their need for everything to be neatly packaged and spelled out for them so there's no need to wait for the story to unfold...

Symptom of living in an informational society. The irony is that labelling things is restrictive, erodes freedom, and inhibits discovery.

Like requiring a “parody” tag to ruin a joke before it gets made.