Oxygen‑at‑z14 Is Expected

Detecting oxygen emission lines in galaxies only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang (e.g., JADES‑GS‑z14‑0) is consistent with standard star‑formation and chemical‑enrichment models; the truly paradigm‑breaking result would be an oxygen‑free primitive galaxy, not the presence of oxygen. Media headlines that treat early oxygen as overturning cosmology misstate what the observations actually test. — Framing JWST detections correctly prevents sensationalist misinterpretation, guides rational science funding and public trust, and focuses scrutiny on genuinely anomalous observations (absence of metals) rather than expected enrichment.