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The article starts with a lie: Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández is 16 years old and has an idea no one else had.

As others have mentioned it's not the first time.

So, is the reporter willfully lying, or is so incompetent that couldn't even do a simple Google search? I don't know which is worse.

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I'm not saying you're wrong, but what I'm saying is that children deserve a little bit less froth-in-mouth reactions from us adults. Let's be civil, and give praise for curiosity... given that it takes none to be an armchair inventor.

On my read they are criticising the reporter, not the child. We definitely should be careful, in situations like this, not to be nasty to the kids involved. But I think we should still be allowed to be upset by bullshit, and strongly criticize the bullshitters, even when they are bullshitting about a child.

It's shitty reporting. The girl "discovered" the effect by herself, devised a way to use it as a project, and shitty newscasters blew it out of proportion [pun intended]

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