I realized that it might sound like that my points were changed after the fact. I want to make sure that the current replication efforts didn't affect my confid

I realized that it might sound like that my points were changed after the fact. I want to make sure that the current replication efforts didn't affect my confidence of these points at all, because the research group has indeed predicted most difficulties in current replications including this (e.g. they thought searching for SC in single crystals hindered the research). The fact that Chair was a sort of madman makes it harder to talk about their intents, and my articles were written to highlight those aspects better.