A lot of people in [0] were just getting their cues from actual physicists who were, for the most part, skeptically and cautiously optimistic at that point in t

A lot of people in [0] were just getting their cues from actual physicists who were, for the most part, skeptically and cautiously optimistic at that point in time. I wouldn't call that "falling" for fake news/fraud. I would call that a sensible approach to forming opinions about what to believe.