I believe that my argument remains a solid, semi-logical rebuttal (it does depend on some physical intuition) to the claim that we can fully trust the original

I believe that my argument remains a solid, semi-logical rebuttal (it does depend on some physical intuition) to the claim that we can fully trust the original article's claim that the effectiveness of the device depends only on the temperature differential at the location where it is deployed. At the very least, the claim needs to be demonstrated in the field or explained by some documented physical phenomenon before I'll completely trust it.