[virgilp]

Oh, I'm not claiming that to be "evidence" - merely saying that there are hints that alternative explanations are worth exploring/investigating. "There's no smoke without fire" thing - sometimes there absolutely is smoke without any fire (especially when creating smoke was the intent), but it's still worth to consider the hypothesis that observed smoke might have been caused by a fire.

[watwut]

Sometimes, and I think here too, the claim is more of "the fire and the cow-eating-the-grass are unrelated".

As in, whatever avocados young people were eating and buying, the expense is unlikely to be comparable with the cost of housing, education, healthcare (if they have health issues already) etc.