You are welcome to your opinion, but having grown the plant myself, I believe that you were wrong, and it was indeed dudded. This was over a year ago, and those are some of the only pics I have of that plant, to help illustrate the issue. If I had better pics of the more dudded branches, I think it would be pretty obvious. Again, the seed plants I had growing next to it showed no issues, and it was a progressive thing with specific branches, which is often a telltale sign of HPLvD. Also, as far as "the science", the science is very new, and it being a latent virus by definition, may not always be detectable when asymptomatic.