I wasn’t asking because I trust them; I was asking because their denying it materially changes the situation.

If anything, the fact that they didn’t immediately deny it leads me to believe that they at least took the concern seriously.

Buckmaster himself said essentially all the progress they made was from July 15th onwards (with a new model on the problem) with no real progress prior to then.

I think it’s really cope to claim this was a human result being stolen.