Dude, "a report from Wired"? It's an article published in ScienceNOW, a news digest produced by Science, the journal put out by the AAAS and the most prestigious general-science journal in the country (although slightly infamous for publishing things that are exciting but not actually true - see Life On Mars or Arsenic DNA). The story has merely been rehosted with permission by Wired, as it makes perfectly clear. It's a news story about a paper in PLoSone, a genuine peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing papers whose data are methodologically sound (but papers that are not necessarily interesting, or not necessarily solid in the conclusions they draw). Wired has precisely nothing to do with this; at most, you got there via Wired.