Folks it's quite simple really.
Pax know more about aviation than we professionals do, at least they like to think so.
Journalists know more than anyone in the world and anything they say must be true, after all the BBC, Daily Mail, Daily (S)Express, The Times, Guardian etc, don't have any political or other agenda now do they.
I remember an interview with the great Dr David Bellamy, the real one not Lenny Henry off TISWAS, regarding Global Warming. His position is that it is all a bunch of trollop, however he has been effectively gagged by our objective media and other scientists, so sorry if I don't buy into this.
Now where's my V8