They stuck a finger up their collective nostrils and pulled out a bugger and examined it closely and yelled "Eureka! DATA!"
But, it’s still a bugger. . . and worth nothing more despite all their posturing and claims!
Scientists up to and including Carl Sagan were certain that Venus had huge oceans and lots of greenery on islands as well with a surface temperature of about 140° F at the equator, with an atmospheric pressure similar to Earth, and roundly criticized Velikovsky in the 1950s for claiming it had a surface temperature almost 900° F and an atmosphere pressure of 90 times Earth’s.
Those scientists were examining their buggers too. They were shocked when they actually got instruments there and measured the conditions on Venus. Average surface temperature is 864° F and pressure at 89 Bar. Although they never admitted it, Velikovsky nailed it in every thing he said they’d find. . . 25 years before they launched the probe. So, before we look, it’s nose picking. I guess Velikovsky must have had better buggers.
The lead author notes that the study makes it possible to produce future scopes with the capability to confirm or disconfirm the model. That's just good science, not "nose picking". And I'm plenty familiar with the phony scientist Carl Sagan -- but be careful, there are those around here who I think would lick his ass clean if they could.