If you become convinced of your own BS, it is easier to convince...

If you become convinced of your own BS, it is easier to convince others. It becomes infectious. Lots of people can be involved, feeding off each other. But all are wrong.

In this case, it has SFA to do with medical doctors protecting anything other than the public

you should be more concerned about spindoctors, liars and swindlers, particularly here.

This study fully hinged on acoustics.

It is potentially salvageable but requires a strong commitment to intellectual scrupulousness and integrity. That is assuming the Aussie results are indicative, as you question. What worries me is that I don't recall seeing the confidence intervals for those...

Could be some fairly wild gyrations at this SP level..