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Oops, Scientists May Have Severely Miscalculated How Many Humans Are on Earth
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"May" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The last third of the article is all about how this is very unlikely to be true. As the saying goes - "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", and this seems like pretty weak evidence.
Also fuck that headline. iirc usually the article author doesn't get to write the headline, the editor does that. And often all the editor cares about is grabbing eyeballs