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Well, these things do not run on schedules. No one is going to jump the gun and write a paper that undergoes peer review until he feels he has all his ducks in a row.

When a story breaks, promises a lot and then mysteriously dies away it is often an indication that it was a cod in the first place - claims exaggerated, a simple explanation found. It may be that there are no updates because they want to downplay the discovery.

Simon21 wrote:When a story breaks, promises a lot and then mysteriously dies away it is often an indication that it was a cod in the first place - claims exaggerated, a simple explanation found. It may be that there are no updates because they want to downplay the discovery.

Or it could be professional jealousies & clannishness, as in the long deliberately delayed publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

circumspice wrote:

Simon21 wrote:When a story breaks, promises a lot and then mysteriously dies away it is often an indication that it was a cod in the first place - claims exaggerated, a simple explanation found. It may be that there are no updates because they want to downplay the discovery.

Or it could be professional jealousies & clannishness, as in the long deliberately delayed publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

And what a disappointment they proved to be. Like the Fatima prophecies, much promised and it all turned out to be empty gibberish