> “[The spike is] a novel contribution of this algorithm that is not > usually done in phylogenetics,” Douglas said. They built a model that incorporates a co

> “[The spike is] a novel contribution of this algorithm that is not > usually done in phylogenetics,” Douglas said. They built a model that incorporates a controversial non-standard dynamic and found that it exhibited the very processes that they added. Showing an effect in computer simulations designed to produce exactly this effect is as bad as showing something "in mice"; in both cases, you generally get stories reporting the "results" with only a brief in-passing mention of the key caveat.