Medical professionals have a history of not necessarily having complete understanding of the maths they use in their work. Classic example of a nutritionist 'inventing' the trapezoid rule for calculating area under a curve, and then naming it after herself. And then many many other medical people unironically using said method and citing her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%27s_model

That seems awfully like an appeal to authority. Your parent comment doesn't just vaguely snipe, but poinys out reasons this should have been expected. Those reasons could potentially not be valid, or not present the whole picture, but "the researchers are from Stanford" doesn't rebut them.