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"U.S. scientists" could have read the National Geographic article that surmises the EXACT same thing...15 yrs. ago.

Or, they could have talked to my long-dead Nan who told me about the "blight" in 1960. There were actual eye witnesses who could have saved the American taxpayer alot of money on this nonsense.

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"U.S. scientists" could have read the National Geographic article that surmises the EXACT same thing...15 yrs. ago.

I'm quite sure these scientists already knew more than NG or your Nan, even when they started. What's different from NG's "surmise," or your long-dead Nan's story, is that these scientists actually identified which fungus was responsible -- not a useless venture at all.