This isn't what the article says. Looking at the previous discussion when the main page of the Nature special issue was submitted

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3275179

shows that well enough. The Hacker News guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

say "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it." Here, the original article title and subtitle is "Scientists and autism: When geeks meet Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen thinks scientists and engineers could be more likely to have a child with autism. Some researchers say the proof isn't there."

I'll flag this submission so that the curators can take a second look at the title.