While I applaud your phraseology, I think the quantity of breathless, non-expert media coverage of this issue over the past decades simultaneously make it diffi

While I applaud your phraseology, I think the quantity of breathless, non-expert media coverage of this issue over the past decades simultaneously make it difficult to determine the past state of the scientific research (absent reading of relevant papers) and make it wise to reject other than peer-reviewed primary source articles out of hand. At very least, that's my strategy.