Thanks for saving me the trouble of actually reading the article. Or maybe, now i wanna read it even more to see this kind of questionable hypotheses with my own eyes.

Reminds me of how media often reports on certain one-time events: "the presence of the police at this football match cost the tax payer 1 million dollars." Well, you would have had to pay these police officers, regardless of if there had been a football match or no match, no?