For concrete evidence, try a faceplant in the sidewalk.
You can choose to ignore reality, but your face will still be messed up. Even if the world’s top face doctor says otherwise.
My argument may be poor, but that is because you have chosen to believe what you read (which you won’t even quote, yet ask for references) and close you mind to all else.
Invalid, hardly. Pointless, not in the least. Yet in your individual case it may be true. Mostly because you choose to make it so.