Okay, since I have a B.S. in Chemistry too, for my undergraduate degree, I was moved to read the articles. The first thought is that of course correlation doesn't prove causation. Also, the researcher who observed the variances at night when the sun was on the opposite side of the earth proposes that neutrinos, which zip through the whole mass of the earth like it wasn't there, fit the pattern. Rather than the neutrinos which traversed the entire earth without an interaction suddenly being able to affect a radioactive material on the opposite surface, it seems to cast some doubt that the sun was the source of the anomalies.
