Another important meaning of the phrase is "we searched for evidence of X and failed to find it". In other words, we failed to reject the null. I think Scott m

Another important meaning of the phrase is "we searched for evidence of X and failed to find it". In other words, we failed to reject the null. I think Scott means to wrap that up in the second bullet point ('we have evidence X is false'), but of course, there are important distinctions there. Of which journalists may not be aware, or may not spend much time on.