The discovery that it was forged has been enough for many people to cast doubt on ALL the feathered dinosaurs coming from China and the general concept of dinosaurs as descendant of birds or birds as living dinosaurs. Once again the press shows its powers of distortion in ignorant, misleading headlines. The Chinese quarries are extremely rich but the digging and collection is carried out many times in a rather careless way. With many new feathered specimens making sensational headlines the price paid for them in the markets has skyrocketed, and it was inevitable that forgeries were going to start appearing.
Veritable masterpieces abound.
And it was just a matter of time that a dinosaur forgery would see its way to the market too. It's always good to smash popular theories. So it was just as good to try to bring the dinosaur-bird link down. That is the press game. More difficult is to understand the support lent to the sensationalistic coverage of the Archaeoraptor affair by well established authorities like Larry Martin.