I was reading your comment, agreeing with it but still feeling why this is a bad comment. It just occurred to me that an anecdotal statement like this is the antithesis of scientific discourse. We have a paper here, trying to answer a question, and anecdotal testimonials can only harm the discussion by biasing readers without adding anything of value to let anyone objectively conclude anything on the problem.

The most useful discussion would be if we all read the paper and critique its methodology or results.

I was reading your comment, disagreeing with it but still feeling why this is a good comment. It just occurred to me that this is not science: science must be reproducible and this is just an historical report on artifact that will be unavailable soon.