No, not easily fooled, completely in favor of her conclusion; a priori — no one took a boat to the Americas before Columbus (or, if pressed and reminded of the L’anseax Meadows site, the Vikings), there is nothing to find.
“Look at the acrimonious nature of the James ossuary study” — yes, look at it, a rush to judgment against authenticity, and after lengthy LEGAL trials, the arguments against authenticity have been shown to be fabrications. This isn’t to say that this is the one, the only, James of the Bible, it is to say that there wasn’t any honesty on the side of those who immediately condemned it.
Here in the US the condemnation of out-of-place artifaces is built right in.
I would seriously doubt they’d be in favor of such a conclusion since finds like that can make reputations and careers. Case in point is L’Anse aux Meadows. The evidence made the argument, nobody disputes it now. It means full time jobs and beaucoup funding.
The James ossuary ran into debunkers who couldn’t hold their arguments even when they used the power of the state to aid them. It did help that the ossuary had been examined and backed by experts who testified within the limitations of their own fields. That’s how they were able to tell that this particular “out of place” artifact had the traits of an authentic 1st century ossuary even if it did say “James brother of Jesus”.