On the other hand, the totality of experiments should have suggested that they likely can. You can keep trying to find better experiments, but if bees are defeating each one, your prior should be changing
Well, in 1929 they couldn't really get on a red-eye to New York ;)
And one still cannot in 2024 ;). Almost all red-eye flights go from east to west. There are none from Paris to NYC. There are some from America's west coast to Asia though, because those are super long flights.