:Beland: That is the whole point of the Bell tests  to test whether or not quantum mechanics is correct. I know many people think these days that Bell was arguing that the world was in fact non-local (if you read books such as Nick Herbert's "Quantum Reality" you will most certainly get this impression) but try reading his own papers and I think you will find a different story.  Bell simply stated that if local reality is true it implies a certain inequality.  QM violates this inequality.  In the absence of a loophole-free Bell test the matter of whether or not QM is correct in this matter remains open.  

 :Regarding the need for an expert opinion, yes indeed we could use one, but what we don't need is opinions based only on second and third-hand opinions of convinced quantum theorists.  Clauser and Horne were, at least at the time of writing their 1974 paper, open minded on the subject.  What we need is someone with an independent point of view who can spare the time to study carefully both that paper and the related parts of the 1978 physics report by Clauser and Shimony.