This is the significant change that modern science has brought to the mystery.

The question is no longer purely one of competing narratives and circumstantial evidence.

There is a specific scientific method available that could provide material evidence about one of the most specific factual claims in the dispute.

The obstacle to applying that method is not scientific.

It is institutional.

Skull and Bones has not agreed to allow examination of its holdings.

The organization’s foundational commitment to secrecy is in direct tension with the kind of transparency that DNA testing would require.