...But surely direct evidence of a phenomenon must always trump any argument from lack of evidence!
There are times when absence of evidence is a lack, i.e. that a certain phenomenon existed but that we have yet to find evidence for it, and other times when it is evidence of lack, i.e. that the looked for phenomenon was never there in the first place.
This is one of the cases IMO of the latter.
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