Good call, already linked.

Personal anecdote: I have tinnitus and noise-cancelling headphones sets it off worse than regular headphones. As in, I always have a constant low-level ringing, but certain triggers can 10X or 100X the intensity. As a developer, I was a heavy user of noise canceling headphones before this.

This is wild speculation which even when done by professionals is still nonsense. People read this and will remember it as fact.

Journalists shouldn’t publish this nonsense because it’s exactly the kind of thing that makes people not trust journalists (with good reason).