He said, “This should settle the debate.”
There’s no question what he’s saying, and it ain’t what you’re saying he’s saying.
You're wrong.
He expects his experiments to be repeated and his conclusions questioned...and he expects the results to be replicated and the conclusions supported because the evidence is overwhelming and the conclusions obvious. He's a scientist and that's what scientists do.
What he doesn't expect or understand is unreasonable insistance that wrong is right, up is down, black is white.