 The gatekeeping thesis holds that attention is necessary for consciousness, so that removing it from a target eliminates consciousness of it. Yet there is a flaw in the methodology. To report a stimulus, one must attend to it, i.e., select it for report. The experimental logic requires eliminating attention to a stimulus S to test if attention is a necessary condition for consciousness (e.g., eliminating attention to the gorilla by distracting the subject with the ball). Yet even if the subject were conscious of S, when attention to S is eliminated, one can predict that the subject will fail to act (report) on S since attention is necessary for report. The observed results are actually consistent with the subject being conscious of S without attending to it, and thus are neutral between overflow and gatekeeping. Instead, the experiments concern parameters for the capture of attention and not consciousness.