Sometimes popular science is itself the misinformation. The authors stretch the findings to land in prestigious journals. The news stretches the findings furthe

Sometimes popular science is itself the misinformation. The authors stretch the findings to land in prestigious journals. The news stretches the findings further to sell clicks (c.f. Gell-Mann Amnesia effect). The people on the internet selectively quote articles and selectively ignore others. The algorithm tries to only show you content that you like. The truth doesn't have a chance.