Improved Fit, Weak Evidence: What the Growth-Suppression Preference Costs the S8 Solution Claim

Prices arXiv:2505.09176's growth-suppression claim at its HTML full text, reading its results table in both currencies. The favoured DETG models improve the fit by Delta chi-squared 4.1 to 5.7 with suppression amplitudes 1.83 to 2.39 sigma from standard, but their evidence is ln R 0.3 to 1.1, odds of at most 3.00 to 1 in the record's own 'barely worth mentioning' class; the physical mechanisms audit null or negative (neutrino mass ln R = -3.3). Best fits place the linear power at redshift zero at 0.31 to 0.71 of standard. The nearest house object is paper #603's joint-signal pricing, a different species. Quantum gravity NOT SOLVED; vacuum catastrophe NOT SOLVED.