1. The claim that the musicologists are absolutely sure that it is MJ's voice.
FALSE/TWISTED INFORMATION!
Firstly, the musicologists deal more with copyright than with voice recognition.
Secondly, no musicologist can ever be absolutely sure about voice recognition.
Thirdly, neither the Estate nor SONY Music hired any forensic audio experts who are actually specialized in voice recognition, yet they are sure it is Michael!
2. They hired the BEST musicologists.
Extremely INACCURATE information!
Firstly, if someone says "I talked to the richest man in the world", everyone would probably think of people such as Bill Gates, Marc Zuckerberg.
If someone says "I got a piece of advice from the best stock market adviser in the world", everyone would probably think of Alan Greenspan. "The best video in the world", everyone ould think of "Thriller", etc, etc. The point is, from the moment you say "the best", usually they are famous and well known by the large public. In this case, not only we do not know who those so called best musicologists are, but we even don't know if they work as self-employed, or within a privately-owned company, or anything close. For someone who is named "best", it is quite sad to see that nobody actually know them. And if we don't know them, how can we know that they are the best? What are their résumé, credentials?
Secondly, what is striking, is the need to say that they hired the best! Only by saying so, they are actually trying to say, no matter if we hire our own musicologists, they have the opinions from the best and all other opinions would come from less than the best, thus worse musicologists. In other words, no matter what any other musicologist would say, they in their report are already saying that anyone else's effort to analyse the Cascio tracks would be useless.
Thirdly, to protect their butts a bit more, just in case we'd hire the "second best" musicologists (even if we don't know who actually the best are, and even less who the second best are), they already felt the need to state in their report that they already hired them too and that they corroborated what the best already said. In other words, if ever we hire musicologists, they'd --according to them-- be at best "the third best" musicologists, in other words poor guys who know nothing compared to their "best" and "second best" musicologists.
All in all, those musicologists:
-ARE NOT experts in VOICE RECOGNITION
-CANNOT claim to be absolutely sure
-are COMPLETELY unknown to the general (or even professional expert) public
As a conclusion, all I can say for the moment:
There is no such thing as THE BEST or SECOND BEST musicologists! How and by whom would they be assessed to determine that they are the best? By the "BEST of the BEST" musicologist committee? Ridiculous.
Let's do a little test. It would be the same as if I asked you to name me who's the best translator in the world?
You got it! Impossible to determine. The same goes for musicologists. There is no such thing.