Internet forums like this will have minimal impact on changing minds, so posts pointing to "proof" or "evidence" of one view or another are typically ignored or overlooked, because there is no one physically in the same space forcing an objective study of said proof/evidence.
While the knowledge/facts are out there on the Net, it takes real wisdom to be able to distinguish Truth from fraud.
And that was followed in the same sentence by "always has been". But you left that out.
Half-truths are the most seductive kind of lies.