As always you are entitled to your opinion ,which you can't support with facts , but you are not qualified to state that I am not qualified to reach the conclusions I id ,because you don't know me or the sources of information I might have.
Some vague hint that you are privy to facts not available to the rest of us just aint good enough. Till you prove otherwise, you are just another armchair biologist like most of us here.
I do know this, a 44% reduction in anything is generally not considered by most to be "insignificant"