[balrog666]

Any insight you can bring to bear here?

[Physicist]

Any insight you can bring to bear here?

1. Suggesting contamination in a previous experiment one was unable to reproduce does not constitute an allegation of fraud, not even indirectly.
2. "The wicked flee when no man pursueth" (Proverbs, 28:1)
3. Demonstrating that that particular mode of contamination is insufficient to explain the results of the first experiment, is a very weak defense, and does not in any way constitute a reproduction of the first experiment.
4. Suggesting that a team altered their results to deny research funding to another group is a direct allegation of fraud.