Yes, this sounds like a situation where progress in that field may have led them to go back and give more credit to the original experiments going in that direction
Doubt so, none of the links is working on the site. It doesn't inspire trust, wouldn't spend money, yet even create an account, on a site that has no privacy policy or terms of use.
Generally the reason you have a links section in the footer is for them to be actual links, not text. I wouldn't trust this product as far as I could throw it given how many issues the site seems to have