Originally Posted by
Kagehitokiri
arent these kinds of stories always lacking any real factual/contextual analysis?
What they lack is accuracy and a public that is capable of comprehending probabilistic statements. Here is a fill-in-the-blank secret decoder ring for all such articles.
Someone says super scary _____ is POSSIBLE. (insert scenario)
What they don't say is that scenario is as LIKELY as ________. (insert contextual probability)
In this case, the first blank is "coach-hacking a plane" and the second is "lightening hitting the moon".
