> a field that loves to snipe at the only group in the room willing to try and answer questions Maybe the others tried and decided not to publish their model b

> a field that loves to snipe at the only group in the room willing to try and answer questions Maybe the others tried and decided not to publish their model because they couln't make it good enough. The least worst model doesn't necessarily pass the threshold of usefulness. If everybody had said a more honest "we don't know, the data is not good enough" then maybe there would have been more effort into getting better data.