I agree, except I would speculate that the error is with the reporter, not with the scientists. What they have is a "Proposed Experiment", not a "Discovery".
It's sort of like Archimedes, with his shouts of "Eureka!", while running naked through the streets of Syracuse, after "discovering" how to measure volume of an object while entering his bath tub. His theory ultimately proved correct, but his timing was premature.
Bttt