"I have made efforts - within limits - to check origins, etc., in building my repertoire, and was trained to do suchlike during my major in anthropology/BA in humanities."

very poor efforts, from the look of things. A quick internet surf and a cut-and-paste is not really research. As I say, I used to lecture on a BA degree course. I certainly would have found your approaches to research, argument and evidence wholly unacceptable.