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This is actually a perfect representation of the shallow "research" conspiracy theorists do.
Quoting only the first few lines of an abstract outlining a problem/open question then ignoring the rest of the paper where they address the issue in the abstract.
This way, they can claim that the paper says the exact opposite of what it does.