It is not a gap defined by inaction or delay.

It is a gap defined by the careful, painstaking work of making sure that the findings are real, that the methods are sound, that the communities affected have been engaged, and that the result is stated accurately and with appropriate acknowledgment of its limits.

The infant in the hearth waited eleven and a half thousand years.

The scientists who found her took eight more to tell her story as well as they could.

Both kinds of waiting are part of the truth.