I know someone who has worked on similar experiments, and he was able to predict the fault that caused this problem upon first hearing about it, and a fair numb

I know someone who has worked on similar experiments, and he was able to predict the fault that caused this problem upon first hearing about it, and a fair number of similar people were able to do the same. Someone who is too anxious to announce a major result without having checked common faults that could explain away the result first shouldn't be in charge of a major experiment.