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Originally Posted by TheIglu  It's in the same boat as global warming. |
Which is to say broadly supported by science. The popular press has no real interest in doing proper research. They have to be "balanced" which often mean reporting "both sides" of the issue, even when one side is wrong.
Do you know what peer review is? In order for something like global warming to rise to the point it has many scientists have to look at the data and be able to get the same results from it. People have no idea what the scientific process and publishing in journals is all about, but by the time something makes it to a journal like Nature it's passed muster.