I just think its a little naive to assume that there would not be any influence until some academic comes in with a meta analysis that suggest that there is a s

I just think its a little naive to assume that there would not be any influence until some academic comes in with a meta analysis that suggest that there is a statistically significant degree of influence. It's best to believe that there could be influence one way or another with anything you read in media, because influence is massively profitable.