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A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?

FDA_TrackerJim said:

Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.

I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.

FDA_TrackerJim said:

Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.

Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.

Reporting back.

Update: the thing I was blaming turned out not to be the cause. Leaving the original post as written rather than editing it, so the mistake stays visible for whoever searches this next.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.