I am not reading all this to know if this was already said, but I am tired of the dog argument. Just because a trained dog, whose nose is as good or better than a deer's, went looking for something his handler knew was there and found it does NOT make a case against scent control. A deer is not a dog. A hog is not a dog. A bear... well a bear is close, lol. A dog trained to find something will find the thing it is trained for. That does not equate at all to how a deer operates. They have totally different brains. A deer is not is not trained to seek out people for a reward. A deer reads his surroundings in order to know they are safe for his intended activities. That is it. Deer don't run for the hills just because human, bear, or coyote scent is present in the most miniscule amount. They would stay stressed out and die if that were the case.
Think of it like this. We all have smelled a skunk. Now imagine all skunks smell to high heaven at all times and they are supreme people murderers. Would you run frantically every time you caught a faint whiff of one? NO. Why? Because you know based on the strength of the smell how far away the skunk might be or perhaps you may think the it has left the area some time ago and is not an immediate threat. Deer operate the same way. If a deer thinks I am further away than I really am or that I have been out of the area for quite some time it will remain calm and do its thing. Scent control gives you the ability to fool the deer in that regard. They either can't smell you, think you are gone, or think you are very far away. This all has been studied as well.
I am in Louisiana. I bet we rival Michigan in hunters per forested acre. The few deer we have are extremely wild and smart. I wear scentlok head to toe, wear rubber boots, take scent showers, use ozone, and spray items with odor eliminating spray. This has increased my success by a huge margin. I truly don't remember ever being blown at since I started doing this, and I don't hunt the wind because that is next to impossible here. To say that scentlok has nothing to do with my success is a bunch of baloney. I killed an 8 year old 10 point in a over pressured club that was sniffing my tracks 20 minutes after I had got into my stand. He sniffed, looked around, and started eating. Then two more bucks came hang out with him. I killed a mature 10pt on public land that came from down wind in a steady breeze. I watched him walk working his nose to try and smell danger or perhaps does. I was only about 18' up. That would not have happened in years past. In total, I have killed 3 mature bucks in this state, 2 on public, and one private. I killed zero before scentlok. I only saw 1 from stand before scentlok.