It’s still important to disambiguate the curious optimists from swindlers and fraud scientists. There’s nothing wrong with asking “what if?”. Shaming laypeople

It’s still important to disambiguate the curious optimists from swindlers and fraud scientists. There’s nothing wrong with asking “what if?”. Shaming laypeople and the media for not being scientifically literate enough to navigate quickly-releasing literature on quantum mechanics isn’t good for science either. It stifles curiosity, and this kind of take is what hinders people from taking an interest in science in the first place. What’s important is that as new information comes in, those same laypeople are willing to take in that new information, which is exactly what happened. Science isn’t perfect and in this case, the process worked exactly as designed.