This is unnecessary. There's already been a lot of discussion about it on HN, with much the same conclusions. All this is doing is adding to the noise.
It's certainly not kind to an intelligent and curious 13-year-old who just happened to become the online media-darling-du-jour.
The same conclusions on the HN comments? I didn't see those conclusions, sorry; the bits about measuring voltage rather than power, for example, was buried in a comment well down the page. Most of the comments were about how the kid's results were not surprising / not revolutionary, not that they were most probably fundamentally wrong because of measurement error.
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I swear, adults are so incredibly harsh with very young people who are just trying to improve things, and using their minds, while learning.
I bet the kid reads this site, and all the comments on the stuff.