Complexity is a defence. If a term is doing work on this site, it's defined here in language anyone can check — because "you don't understand the process" is one of the oldest ways to end a conversation.
One claim about lobbying influence circulates constantly. Here is exactly what this site does with it — kept visible as a demonstration of the method rather than buried.
This is the whole discipline in miniature: reject the unverifiable number, publish the verified one, and refuse the conspiracy extension entirely. The documented influence is substantial enough without inventing a statistic.