Yeah, but that's actually not really true, the undergrad just reported in the campus newspaper what other scientists had found and reported in pubpeer:
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Tessier-Lavigne
Kudos to the kid for breaking the story before other media sources, but the actual scientific investigative work here was done by people with scientific training
Here's his original reporting where he describes this: https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/5-tips-for-using-...
Kudos to the kid for breaking the story before other media sources, but the actual scientific investigative work here was done by people with scientific training