The article has been re-written and no longer includes your quote, nor does the sentence, “I think it’s settled,” he says” appear anywhere.
A commenter mentions that this piece was not fact checked saying, “the description in the article is of atomic emission spectroscopy, not mass spectrometry.”
Another commenter mentions that one of the flaws in modern science is the assumption that things today were the same long ago - a gradual progression that achieves a satisfactory status quo, leaving all of us feeling comfortable that our world will not change dramatically overnight, despite evidence that it has in the past: evidence sometimes mentioned, but always rapidly skipped over.
Science Daily rewrote the article? Wow.
I just posted it a couple of hours ago. It is linked on Drudge. Perhaps someone got nervous about something in it.
It’s not the only article on this “news” and Fakebook tried trending it yesterday (Fakebook has trended at least 8 fake Trump stories in 10 days, CDC banned word list, Trump firing Mueller, Trump...)