The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable

We deserve an explanation, in the very least.

She's been baking for a month at least.

Because their proposal is based on rather specific models and assumptions and their is no current evidence for it, I would say it logically possible, but not compelling.

To assume is to presume.

Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life---which is fundamentally dependent on light---to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that.