In any case, it looks like we've already reached something resembling the consensus that it's inconclusive...

Given that the author does not have electronic links to her artciles on her Web site, I think I'll skip further investigation... Especially, since most scientific papers seem to be wrong even without help from the journalists:

http://economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4342386&no_na_tran=1

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7915