That’s a good point. I think I’m more interested in your meta-point about science in general anyway, but I think the problem is that at a first glance, your supporting arguments seem to be wrong. Given that Dr Bouman worked on one of several teams trying to avoid exactly the problem you’re talking about by using multiple different methods, and her CHIRP algorithm was created specifically to avoid the biases that CLEAN introduces, your meta argument doesn’t work unless you go deeper and make a stronger argument that CHIRP is biased or broken in the way you’re claiming.
That’s a good point. I think I’m more interested in your meta-point about science in general anyway, but I think the problem is that at a first glance, your supporting arguments seem to be wrong. Given that Dr Bouman worked on one of several teams trying to avoid exactly the problem you’re talking about by using multiple different methods, and her CHIRP algorithm was created specifically to avoid the biases that CLEAN introduces, your meta argument doesn’t work unless you go deeper and make a stronger argument that CHIRP is biased or broken in the way you’re claiming.