The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data - John Tukey
This is the John Tukey of the Cooley-Tukey Fast Fourier Transform algorithm. I was introduced to the concept of a mini-computer when I wrote a FFT for a PDP-8M with 4K of 12 bit memory to implement a spectrum analyzer of an accelerator experience, circa 1976. This was later moved to a PDP-15, and then to the DEC-10, where that same algorithm was used for radar signal processing in search of SAM-6 signatures recorded on 9-track tape brought back for places unknown. That software, eventually running on a PDP-11 installed inside a NC-135 (renamed EC-135) was replaced by a Watkins Johnson receiver and we were out of the software business, at least for converting radar analog signals to digital and looking for signatures.
All of this is to say programming computers is not the same today as it was then, except in the same domain - Defense Systems, now with massive software content.
But more importantly all of this is to say, when you hear someone start out with a hypothesis that is not based on evidence, but rather opion, it's going to be a long hard road to the conclusion.
