> How many research decisions will be influenced by the possibility of going viral? How many bad decisions will be made as a result of pressure from millions of

> How many research decisions will be influenced by the possibility of going viral? How many bad decisions will be made as a result of pressure from millions of non-experts who briefly become armchair X-ologists? Ask L Ron Hubbard? The willingness of the crowd to believe in counterfactual things is not constrained to science, and whatever damage/risk is posed by that is not new - as Galileo can attest.