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An experiment by Proietti {\it et al} purporting to instantiate the `Wigner'sFriend' thought experiment is discussed. It is pointed out that the statedimplications of the experiment regarding the alleged irreconcilability of factsattributed to different observers warrant critical review. In particular,violation of a Clauser-Horne-Shimony inequality by the experimental dataactually shows that the attribution of measurement outcomes to the ``Friends''(modeled by internal photons undergoing unitary interactions) is erroneous. Anelementary but often overlooked result regarding improper mixtures is adducedin support of this assessment. A counterexample is provided which refutes thepopular notion that quantum theory leads to `relative facts' that nevermanifest as empirical inconsistencies. It is further noted that under anassumption of unbroken unitarity, no measurement correlation can ever yield anoutcome, since all systems remain in improper mixtures, and attributing adefinite but unknown outcome contradicts their composite pure state. It ispointed out that there already exists a solution to this conundrum in the formof an alternative formulation of quantum theory, which accounts for the datashowing that no outcomes occurred at the interior entangled photon level andalso predicts that outcomes can and do occur at the exterior ``super-observer''level in this type of experiment.

Unitary Interactions Do Not Yield Outcomes: Attempting to Model "Wigner's Friend"