FAKE METAL CODICES WATCH: That article in U.S. News and World Report has come out in the print edition. It doesn't seem to be online, at least yet, but Joel Watts summarizes and quotes from it: Jordan Codices *featured in U.S. News and World Report. The reporter is the one who contacted me in early August. If Mr. Elkington showed Dr. Thonemann the copper codex because it was one "he (Elkington) thought seemed dubious," he did not say so in his introductory note to Thonemann which I have posted here. On the contrary, he made it clear that he thought it was ancient and suggested an Alexandrian provenance. He said he contacted Thonemann for help with deciphering the Greek. (By the way, what is a "putative investigation"?)
More background here and here.