We went over this pretty well in MTF a while back. The claims that starsan doesn't kill yeast are based on lack of information and incorrect biological claims in the sources themselves. If you track the sources that "S. Cerevisiae" quotes here:
https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=24447.msg312961#msg312961 ... you end up with a lot of sources (food safety pamphlets that don't reference anything, mostly) that all seem to repeat the same thing. After some searching, they are all seemingly based on the same source, and that source makes a grievous error about basic biology.
Specifically, the error is that anionic sanitizers only work on bacteria because they are negatively charged and bacteria are positively charged, but yeast are negatively charged. This is just not true. Bryan Heit explains this error here (Bryan happens to be an expert in cell wall polarity; check him out on Google Scholar):
The other problem with the sources is that they all repeat the same line, but I could not find any reference to actual data in the food science book that these claims originate from ("Principles of Food Sanitation," by Norman G. Marriott and Robert B. Gravani 2006). An older food science contradicts this regarding anionic sanitizers:
"[Anionic sanitizers] Advantages: Active against a wide spectrum of microorganisms including thermodurics, controis phage and most yeast strains. Disadvantages: Slow activity against sporeformers, not effective in destruction of most spores." - "Basic Food Microbiology" by George Banward (1989)
The sources used for this argument not only lack experimental data or references to experimental data, they are incorrect in their basic biology, and other sources contradict them.
But there's more. This study looked at the efficacy of a very similar sanitizer to Starsan:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1750-3841.2007.00496.x/full. It's basically the same as StarSan, except it uses citric acid instead of phosphoric acid. The surfactant ingredient is the same (sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate). What the study compared this sanitizer to H2O2. It found that H2O2 was more effective all around, but the sanitizer similar to StarSan killed all organisms tested (E. coli, L. innocua, and S. cerevisiae) within 5 minutes of exposure for all tests. Interestingly, at 40C, the sanitizer was much more efficient at killing all organisms and did so within 60 seconds. So, if you are using StarSan, try giving 5 minutes of contact, or warm up the StarSan solution and give it 60 seconds of contact time.
MTF discussion:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MilkTheFunk/permalink/1436419659719577/