We developed a new method to analyze scanning-tunnelling images and applied it to experiments that had been interpreted as evidence for charge density waves in Cuprates. We discovered that the observed signal has a much simpler explanation in terms of Friedel oscillations that occur in conventional superconductor as well. Our analysis enabled us to explain puzzling experiments in a simple manner, without resorting to complicated models of competing orders.

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