There is an episode of Star Trek Voyager which I think is supposed to be based on this "phenomenon"

I have no idea how it was received at the time but watching it now it just comes across as incredibly tone-deaf, reactionary, and paternalistic to put it lightly

used to read it as kind of self-flagellation, that blog is what happens when terminal STEM brain fully metastasises

I now can't look at the word 'Bayesian' without my blood pressure rising

and as with any forum that bans politics, it is incredibly revealing to see what they deem as "not political"

He's actually called Conclave's Monster

"Some scientists believe" this obviously untrue thing and we're not going to try verify if this claim is true at all - The BBC
The BBC never does this sort of coverage for vaccines or climate change