[kurthr]

Well, there's another aspect which is that the original authors and pop-sci journalists don't seem to be able to understand where they went wrong or how outrageous their claims are, precisely because their jobs depend on not understanding. The could have corrected it. We could not still be circling this drain 2 years later, but we are.

Kinda classic. Kinda boring.

[EA-3167]

It helps that this is a genuinely difficult process to understand and requires an enormous fluency with QFT. Most people who fit that bill have better things to do with their time than write popular science articles or correct them.