Evidently they did have sufficient evidence. With such a big potential payout of such a world changing material, others have invested a few days of time into v

Evidently they did have sufficient evidence. With such a big potential payout of such a world changing material, others have invested a few days of time into verifying their rushed paper and indeed their weak evidence was enough. Again, with a payout so big and ease of replication fairly low, the evidence doesn’t even have to be that convincing.