This reminded me of the tortured logic used by the academics who laughed at the Antikythera mechanism as being from around the first BC: "It was accidentally dropped overboard by a ship during the Middle Ages and just happened to land on the Roman wreck." (or words to that effect.)
That's right up there with those pooh-poohing experienced pilots who described structured aircraft making impossible turns at incredible speeds (UFOs) as "The planet Venus incorrectly observed." (I kid you not.)
The list goes on and on of dogmatic statements by those who refuse to deviate from "what we all know to be true" (because I have written books and based my whole academic career on that belief.)
I wholeheartedly agree. Beech fossils around 2-3 million years old were found on Antarctica — which has supposedly been in deep freeze for 30 million — and some future Nobel laureate claimed they’d been brought from South America (1200 km, minimum) by the winds. Another joker claimed that artifacts from a PreClovis context, found in Canada, were just recent discards, using the words, “any dude could have put that there.”