Regardless if IQ tests actually measure intelligence, using them to compare 2 people raised on different continents, in different cultures, who speak different languages, were part of different education systems, took different tests, and were tested under different conditions is not gonna tell you anything.

It is but it doesn't matter. It's the message that this kind of thinking in headlines sends out (regardless of any refutation in the text). It's basically giving free reign to quackery as mainstream thought.