[Fester Chugabrew]

The more Jee and others tried to remove the ring by tweaking the data . . .

Why would they want to do that, i.e. "remove the ring?" Is this an explicit admission of tweaking data to support preconceived notions?

[rfp1234]

—Is this an explicit admission of tweaking data to support preconceived notions?—

Very similar to the Globull Warming scam.