you first said "over 10000 independent studies" which is what i picked up on, and i see you now back track with 12000 studies. i imagine ther certainly are that many papers, but theres a difference between an independent piece of research and those studies depending on others data or simply...
have to chuckle at that, i doubt theres 10000 independent studies on any subject, least of all this one that relies on the same small set of data being reguritated over and over again. and its not happening faster than predicted, the increase has in fact stalled since the late 90's.