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Non-experts actually attempting to become informed (instead of just feeling like they're informed) can easily tell the difference too. The people being fooled are the ones who want to be fooled. They're looking for something to support their pre-existing belief. And for those people, they'll always find something they can convince themselves supports their belief, so I don't think it matters what false information is floating around.

It seems to be kind of a new thing for laymen to be reading scientific papers. 20 years ago, they just weren't accessible. You had to physically go to a local university library and work out how to use the arcane search tools, which wouldn't really find what you wanted anyway. And even then, you couldn't take it home and half the time you couldn't even photocopy it because you needed a student ID card to use the photocopier.