Why not? What they achieved is a perfectly scientific way of resolving a mystery. Besides, they provide a huge amount of data to mine possibly with a very high

Why not? What they achieved is a perfectly scientific way of resolving a mystery. Besides, they provide a huge amount of data to mine possibly with a very high information content. This is similar to using telescopes to observe distant galaxies or cosmic background radiation and using that data to prove facts about how our universe works.