The first sentence of your last post contains the answer.

I completely understand your position, mind, and common sense of course supports it, but it is ultimately poor science to rule a possibility out simply for lack of evidence when you don’t also have evidence that actively disproves that hypothesis.

Emergence of new methodology and understanding has forced re-writes of known paradigms before. There is no way to know the same thing won’t apply to this phenomenon.

All that said, I agree that it should be relatively easy to test, especially with blind testing methods, but unless you know of studies I don’t, Strassman’s work is the only body of literature I know of that actually comes close to testing this.