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[asteckley]

Well, what is a 'red flag'? It should be understood as an indication that something could be wrong.
It is not evidence of a fraud.
All these points can occur for genuine manuscripts as well as for fakes.

It all starts to become 'semantics', but I would say a red flag IS evidence. It's just not proof.
Damage to the O-Rings on the shuttle during various cold launches was not evidence of a failure.
The dang thing still blew up.
Often, it's only afterwards that red flags get recognized as evidence.
(And sometimes, strangely, they even then get graduated to the status of proof -- which tells us a lot about the nature of evidence in general.)