Perhaps I'm being dense here, but this one aspect of the model still doesn't make sense to me and may need a bit of clarification and/or softening of the conclusions and statements about changes in multimerization.
Sayre's argument aims at the conclusion "No statement can be treated as either true or false".
The program operates largely as a black box, that is, the inner working details are hidden from the user; proofs are conducted by rewriting terms that posses recursive definitions, ultimately reducing the conclusion's statement to the T predicate.
Of particular concern in this regard is the high level conclusion statement on page ES-6 that "We did not find evidence that these mechanisms have led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States".
That such a large number of relevant articles were discovered in spite of this indicates that there may be many more articles in other or earlier journals that support the efficacy and effectiveness of EM, further strengthening the ten conclusion statements above.
Main conclusion: Statement about the main outcome of the research.
Now, I can understand how shortly after the revelations of the e-mails that some might jump to the conclusion that statements like "use Mike's Nature trick... to hide the decline" are evidence of malfeasance.
Systematic reviews critically appraise and synthesize the best available evidence to provide a conclusion statement (a "take-home point") in response to a specific answerable clinical question.
"We think companies should dream up their own products rather than willfully copying ours, and in August a jury in California reached the same conclusion," the statement said.
It cannot be known by inference, since the first premiss is a universal statement and the conclusions of syllogisms are particular statements.
