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to respond the question in the title: no.

Care to elaborate?

Whenever there's a question mark in the title, the answer is usually no, and the article is linkbait.

I don't know if this rule of thumb applies to this article.

Betteridge's law of headlines [0]. The answer to the question is generally no - that doesn't make the article useless link bait though.

You guys know scientists are supposed to ask questions, right?

Scientists are supposed to ask GOOD questions.