And if you run the stylus backwards over a vinyl copy of the Beatles' Abbey Road album, you discover that Paul McCartney is dead.
My friend, believe as you will--and I will defend to the utmost your right to believe it. But on this particular creed you are setting forth...sorry, this horse ain't that thirsty.
But always (I hope), cordially.
Not particularly surprised, but this is not any vinyl record, it's the purest science that exists: mathematics. Statistical analysis is the holy grail of true science. (That is why it is never applied to evolution, but always applied to everything else.)