A reasonable guess, the only counter factual is that a number of people who are not fools seem to have convinced themselves that there is <i>something</i> there but they don&#x27;t know what.<p>And as the article points out there are a number of labs around the world that have independently seen results that were anomalous with respect to the current understanding of how things should work chemically. So if nothing else there is a really good parlor trick in there somewhere, but even tricks need an explanation.