Snarky tone of your response put aside: Whether the comment was incorrect in this case related to the paper in question doesn't invalidate the strategy, genera

Snarky tone of your response put aside: Whether the comment was incorrect in this case related to the paper in question doesn't invalidate the strategy, generally. Might be easier to pass scientific misinfo/disinfo if it were more difficult to reproduce, of course. The comment was likely done in haste, meant to convey general strat that warrants consideration when examining the paper -- but could be easily invalidated, as you pointed out.