We analyze the $$D{\bar{D}}$$
D
D
¯
mass distribution from a recent Belle experiment on the $$e^+e^- \rightarrow J/\psi D{\bar{D}}$$
e
+
e
-
→
J
/
ψ
D
D
¯
reaction, and show that the mass distribution divided by phase space does not have a clear peak above the $$D{\bar{D}}$$
D
D
¯
threshold that justifies the experimental claim of a $$\chi _{c0}(2P)$$
χ
c
0
(
2
P
)
state from those data. Then we use a unitary formalism with coupled channels $$D^+D^-$$
D
+
D
-
, $$D^0{\bar{D}}^0$$
D
0
D
¯
0
, $$D_s{\bar{D}}_s$$
D
s
D
¯
s
, and $$\eta \eta $$
η
η
, with some of the interactions taken from a theoretical model, and use the data to fix other parameters. We then show that, given the poor quality of the data, we can get different fits leading to very different $$D{\bar{D}}$$
D
D
¯
amplitudes, some of them supporting a $$D{\bar{D}}$$
D
D
¯
bound state and others not. The main conclusion is that the claim for the $$\chi _{c0}(2P)$$
χ
c
0
(
2
P
)
state, already included in the PDG, is premature, but refined data can provide very valuable information on the $$D{\bar{D}}$$
D
D
¯
scattering amplitude. As side effects, we warn about the use of a Breit-Wigner amplitude parameterization close to threshold, and show that the $$D_s{\bar{D}}_s$$
D
s
D
¯
s
channel plays an important role in this reaction.