Pretty sure local hidden variable theories were ruled out as an explanation of quantum mechanics a long time ago. What's new here?
> Any explanation of what goes on in a specific individual observation of one photon has to take into account the whole experimental apparatus of the complete quantum state consisting of both photons, and it can only make sense after all information concerning complementary variables has been recorded. Our results demonstrate that the viewpoint that the system photon behaves either definitely as a wave or definitely as a particle would require faster-than-light communication. Because this would be in strong tension with the special theory of relativity, we believe that such a viewpoint should be given up entirely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments
Are you saying that all of these experiments were flawed in some way?
And as this article shows, the Wheeler experiments are not thought experiments, they are very real ones.
We may be saying the same thing, but worth making the distinction.
For the other poster (diggsey), it will be difficult to answer your question about the novelty of these newly run expiriments without a full read of the article.
And of course, non-local classical theories like de Broglie-Bohm are just fine, once again.