Hi Chris
Thankyou for commenting.
I don't know how much to expand and explain, but my anxieties about the last two years scientific media, and the fact that main stream media has needed to fill its copy/hours with science 24/7 has led to some unfortunate and, to me, frightening (struggling for a word) manipulations or misuses or something; and possible influence by interests
I wish in many ways I had the energy to study media and/or social media and/or the broader internet. Look how much space needs to be filled by people competing for attention
EDIT But as someone who made the effort to qualify for a statistician certification (I never actually took it up because it was a Graduate one), I am seriously concerned when I see, for whatever reason, professorial level scientists in our media (every day) intentionally (I didn't say that) or unintentionally misleading (not the right word) or playing some interests game by over simplifying things. The professors (of course) are not the worst offenders. That goes without saying. And at a very personal level as a private consultant with, dare I say, a lifetime professional experience across many fields at a high level, it is close to being professorial without being such. I hope that is not taken as insulting or disrespectful. We feel unable to comment on much at all. We inhabit different worlds which sometimes collide
regards Duncan