[seewhydee]

That's a pretty condescending take on what's evidently a paintakingly put-together theoretical+experimental study, from one of the best condensed matter groups in the world.

Believe it or not, researchers more than any other people love the possibility of previously-undiscovered exotic phenomena; these guys are not coming into this with the agenda of enforcing orthodoxy and stifling a potential discovery. But materials still ought to be consistent with what we know about the laws of physics, and it's totally valid to check this via theory and experiment.