There was a time when everyone in power thought we could dump anything and everything into the nearest river, and wait while it washed away to who-knows where.

" you must first prove " IF

In a dissertation, or peer-reviewed study perhaps.

But not so in a recreational current events BBS at a date site.

I haven't cyber-known you long IF, but long enough to know you could find fault with it, you'd already have posted it.

So the absence of it satisfies me you didn't find any, on that specific issue.
Candidly, your is a circuitous route to validation, but will suffice.

Thanks for it, and happy Independence Day.