Comment by DavidLynchAMA

Most of all, it's clear that bias played and continues to play a major role in their decision-making and their model. They had the opportunity to save face with their response to the judges' ruling, and unfortunately they've come out looking naive. While their previous work has produced results that were later proven to be accurate, this seems more likely due to luck and politics than the robustness of their model, which appears to be inadequate when faced with a sufficiently complex situation where the need for unbiased analysis is of greatest importance.