The downvotes are misplaced. This is a good question.
The value of HN is when people-who-know help curious folks understand the validity of a story. Surely someone here is more capable of assessing this story and I agree that skepticism is in order at first.
The downvotes are because people are reading the question as rhetorical rather than being asked out of genuine curiosity. It's only a good question if the person asking it is doing so with an open mind.