Just a clarification here.. there i assumed the readingmode (like you?) in which scientists are to be identified with the badfaith-clueless

So, if i understood ww4 correctly, it is more like,

  dog reports correctly that theres no person, but the rescuers are actually looking for a horse.

Whereas the lazy (=theoretical) engineerdonkey might say, i detected scent of a horse but didnt actually look, was thinking about that windmill, sorry!