Not sure it's a good idea to distract them from the valuable work they're doing and get them embroiled in the appalling politics of ME. In their postion they'll be being asked to comment on hearsay (I found the comment totally credible, but it's still just hearsay evidence from an internet forum as far as a third party would be concerned), even if EC doesn't deny it, they won't get a word of sense out of her anyway. She doesn't care about evidence and the difference between good and bad trial design is an irrelevance to her, she was just sticking the boot into what she sees as the opposition in a rather primitive and ill-considered way with no regard for the truth as usual, and if she gets called out on it she'll just do it another way and we'll have wasted Fluge and Mella's time. Best thing we can do is leave them in peace to get on with the science and let others deal with the filthy politics. I'd hate to think of EC getting to waste a minute of their time.