Often these types of articles go in one ear and out the other of people with irrational fear of the unknown or are incapable of understanding the way a research

Often these types of articles go in one ear and out the other of people with irrational fear of the unknown or are incapable of understanding the way a researcher might discuss the topic. I feel this is often the case simply because those spreading misinformation love to use very charged words that incite a lot of emotion while those in authority to speak on the subject use terms with strong meaning in science but have much less impact in regular speech. This is a good example. The article's quotes use plenty of words like "remote chance" or "highly unlikely" which don't seem to drive home the point that its "so nearly close to impossible its not worth humoring". Meanwhile, New York Time's publishes an article read my many more viewers with comparisons to the Plague, using terms like "hyper-evolution" and really ridiculous comparisons that are just taken out of context for the sake of fear. Its no wonder you get such "stupid" responses on news article comments, the entire thing is written to rile up readers and get an emotional response while hiding the actual science. Heck, even reading the two articles side by side you get very different stories of the same event (regarding the Ebola lab tests between Pigs/Monkeys in 2012). On NYTimes they indicate that Pig -> Monkey transference was possible then the Monkeys all had to be euthanized to "contain the outbreak". Meanwhile SA article states that the virus was never capable of going Monkey -> Monkey.