Sentence:  Even before the Glasses had arrived in New Guinea, two American anthropologists at Tulane University, Ann and J. L. Fischer, had <WSD>armchaired</WSD> a connection between kuru and cannibalism by working their way through the findings of a team of anthropologists who had studied the Fore in the early 1950s, Ronald and Catherine Berndt, as well as the many papers on kuru that Gajdusek, Zigas and various Australian investigators had published. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To theorize based on analysis of data that was gathered previously; To reflect.