Jasmine is hopeless for serious node apps, that's why. It lacks critical features that are long standing and bitterly complained about by node developers due to the hostile and half-assed responses from the maintainers to those issues.
I'm no fan of Harper but you are incorrect. He's a huge history buff and has been interested in this exact expedition since well before he became PM. It just happens to help with the sovereignty issue.
Another solution in search of a problem. How about posts about truly interesting things like beneficial microbial populations etc. The days of "sanitizing" are rapidly coming to a close in the face of modern science.
Actively damaging? A little dramatic perhaps? I didn't say it doesn't serve a purpose, I said there is nothing to see here. Quite literally. Until they do a larger study why is it news?
It is actively damaging to the community for you to take snipes at studies when the reason you are criticizing the study is not only unnecessary criticism that any layman could provide, it is actually a misinterpretation of the study. You didn't add anything to the discussion.
As for why it is news, a lot of hackers are interested in mental health and mindfulness+meditation specifically and would be interested in more cutting edge news about it, rather than what ends up in the NYTimes 8 months later.