Yeah the NBC News article, from June 2017, someone "recently published a paper" -- in July 2016 (I suppose on a cosmic scale...). At the risk of...ad-hominism, the site they linked doesn't inspire confidence. For one thing, the peer-review process: http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/about/editorialPolicies#peerRe... is basically two editors from the same company, and eventually one or more of a group of "advisors" ( http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/about/displayMembership/3 ), 7 out of 17 being "Independent Researchers".