They weren't, they were false positives, as suspected originally.
(Thanks to Eric Winsberg for the pointer.)
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They weren't, they were false positives, as suspected originally.
(Thanks to Eric Winsberg for the pointer.)
I suspect there is more to the Committee's report than mentioned in this article. Their false positive explanation is quite plausible and many of us suspected it was a strong possibility, but this news report doesn't make a strong case for it. So as with much else, we will have to await better and more thoroughly reported data and probably better studies of this important question.
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