In the footnotes it declares "The authors declare no conflict of interest."
This is more a convenient excuse to post a link to the real abstract than "correcting" snark. To Ars' credit, they did link the paper's full ID number at the bottom, which is cool, but at the moment it 404s. Gripping had, it did give me great Google fodder to find the paper quickly so I'm still scoring them "wildly ahead of the conventional media".
