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That is far more easily explained by contamination, which, as you mention, is actually how they explain it in papers.

Here is another (supplementary table 2). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26121415

I can keep going, but would prefer you bring references of your own so I cannot be accused of cherry picking.

I'm assuming you're trolling so I will stop responding. CRISPR isn't my field and I'm not going to dig into supplements to disprove your theory, which is that CRISPR is not real somehow? I work in the Church lab. I know tens of researchers personally who use this technology. I am confident that CRISPR is real. However, attempting to prove this to you is a waste of my time.

Why would you assume someone providing references that contradict your unreferenced claims is trolling? I am not trolling. Also, I am not claiming that the usual mechanism proposed to explain this data is wrong, only that the published data is just as consistent with a selection mechanism. AFAICT, no one knows either way.

Please link to the data that you believe contradicts my proposed mechanism.

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