“Yet, after 10 years, they still are not able to offer up one shred of actual data or evidence to support their claims beyond anecdotal evidence.”
Due to a lack of empirical or scientific surveys, no data exists to prove one way or the other.
That fact doesn’t demonstrate that the statistical figures that NASI claims is largely untrue. And if NASI IS largely correct, they cannot stand idly by and let the tragedy to continue to linger due to a lack of studies and provable data.
“When they started, many probably thought they intended to rally interest so that they could do such a study and obtain such data. But it has been a decade now, and still nothing? It doesn’t even seem that they are trying!”
Such a study that could withstand scientific scrutiny would likely cost in the high 6 or low 7 digits dollar figures. Who will pay for it? I’m sure everyone, on both sides of the issue, would love such a study. But there is no realistic opportunity of funding it.
And even if such a large financial donation could be secured, proving the problem would take that much resources away from actually correcting the problem. And potentially defeat the whole purpose of the study if it left the community unable to fund fixing the sources of the problem.