You appear (and I may be wrong) to be sprouting personal opinion ...
Not personal opinion. There is some methodology by which the ratings are made - and you could have established that by yourself.
There would be no difference if I started a website called pilotratings.com, nominating Jo Bloggs as the safest pilot in the world, and then selling stories to Yahoo7 saying that Jo Bloggs is the safest pilot in the world because pilotratings.com says so.
You think Yahoo7 would buy that story?