IronGoober
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Well, it already did survive some peer review, as it is published. People who read it might criticize it, but by definition, it has been peer reviewed by being published in a peer-reviewed journal. This could bring up a whole other conversation about how good the peer review system is (not great in my opinion, it needs to be updated), but we can save that for it's own post.
As for the meaning of the summary, I think some of your observations do not necessarily discount their conclusions. The breaking of the points 1/3 of the way from the base could be evidence of their claims, perhaps these crumpled several times before failing there, which may be better than at the tip, it could possibly be reused? From the summary, I got the impression that the I-beam bit you are mentioning may be one of the factors they are attributing to stress-redistribution. Although we'd have to read the paper to know for sure, and I don't want to pay for access.
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