[spookthesunset]

> You do realize the media can say whatever they want?

Ultimately all of what these "experts" say is distilled by people in the media and shared through twitter, HN, reddit, FB and more.

During this madness, all the biggest doomsday people in my circle of "real" humans would feed me reams of NYT and Atlantic articles as their "sources". If I fed them some academic article that goes against the media narrative they'd dismiss it as "not peer reviewed" or "publishers were doing a flawed study". Ironic considering almost all of their sources had all the same major flaws as whatever I provided.