Apologies: Holes in Mason And Johnson's Paper

Here, and in various comment threads I'd been very upbeat about the Mason and Johnson paper No Sign Until the Burst of Fire.  However, Joshua Froust of Registan (recently added to my blogroll with insufficient fanfare) does what appears to me to be a more expert job in debunking their claims on both that paper and another of theirs.

That's not exactly to say what I liked most about it turns out to be wrong, just that they're analysis is, apparently, quite superficial.