Because the people he put on contacting the researchers who allegedly delivered the last set of protein designs all ran into suspiciously similar preliminary stonewalls; which, given some of his other priors and some other observations he's made, suggest that possibly most of the artificial protein design on the planet is actually being done by a secret Governance project rather than those supposed researchers.

Because the people he put on contacting the researchers who allegedly delivered the last set of protein designs all ran into suspiciously similar preliminary stonewalls; which suggests to him that possibly most of the artificial protein design on the planet is actually being done by a secret Governance project rather than those supposed researchers.

He might possibly have some high priors on that possibility for other reasons, but they don't really need to talk about that right now.

Because the people he put on contacting the researchers who allegedly delivered the last set of protein designs all ran into suspiciously similar preliminary stonewalls; which suggests to him that possibly most of the artificial protein design on the planet is actually being done by a secret Governance project rather than those supposed researchers.

Of course, it would have taken him longer to arrive at that guess if he'd had lower priors on it.

Because the people he put on contacting the researchers who allegedly delivered the most relevant existing protein designs all ran into suspiciously similar preliminary stonewalls; which suggests to him that possibly most of the artificial protein design on the planet is actually being done by a secret Governance project rather than those supposed researchers.

Of course, it would have taken him longer to arrive at that guess if he'd had lower priors on it.

Because the people he put on contacting the researchers who allegedly delivered the most relevant existing protein designs all ran into suspicious preliminary stonewalls; which suggests to him that possibly most of the artificial protein design on the planet is actually being done by a secret Governance project rather than those supposed researchers.

Of course, it would have taken him longer to arrive at that guess if he'd had lower priors on it.