Friday's meeting was designed to begin this process, with hopes that other scientists will find inconsistencies in the measurements and, hopefully, repeattheexperiment elsewhere.
This will happen when someone attempts to repeat, modify or debug a similar experimentand takes the time to examine all of the relevant raw data and decide for themselves how to interpret the experimental results.
Gatland has resisted any temptation to repeat that experimentand is also mindful of Italy coming within a whisker of beating Ireland for the first time in this season's championship in Rome, with a late Ronan O'Gara drop-goal saving the visitors in a 13-11 win.