could be . . might be. . . maybe . . . . and this passes for science. Give this crap enough time, and this junk science will conclude Neanderthals were another race killed off by racists, And y’all know who they will point to.
No, seriously, it's the essence of science -- formally stated it's called "hypothesis".
If confirmed, it becomes a "theory", and that's as good as things get in science.
For every scientific theory there are many hypotheses falsified or unconfirmed.
Indeed, you can also say: for every formal hypothesis, there are many scientific "brainstorm" ideas which never reach the light of publication.
Unfortunately, our media treats a "brainstorm", hypothesis or confirmed theory as all more-or-less the same things.
Media seems more interested in sensation than accuracy.
aimhigh: "this junk science will conclude Neanderthals were another race killed off by racists, And y’all know who they will point to."
It's beyond that now -- turns out, they tell us that all non-Africans are 2% to 4% Neanderthals -- equivalent to having one Neanderthal great-great-great grandparent.
Of course... < sarc > this is nothing new, since we've long been told that only men inherit the Neanderthal gene, not women, and so that 4% average means men really are 8% Neanderthal, which must be on some kind of bell-curve distribution, meaning the worst of us are probably in the 50% Neanderthal range!
And that explains global warming doncha know. < /sarc >