They are irrelevant because they are all dwarfed by another bias (for which there is no life-saving cure available in any of the statistical packages): publication bias.
Google, which works at a scale with little or no precedent in traditional computing, may be interested in teaching researchers how to work with these kinds ofpackages, so they will spread new kinds of coding skills.
There have been no convention-related arrests, Zubricki said, and any suspicious packages that have come to the attention of authorities have all been cleared.