5Z wrote:
I would think that, having read some newspaper stories about soaring,
you would realize the media tend to miss the big picture and grab onto
some unrelated subtlety presented then run with it.

It's always fascinating that usually the same people who think the
journalists are ignorants rely on those same journalists when their
writing is convenient.

It's also fascinating when people who use such really difficult and
esotheric and counter-intuitive stuff like the relativity theory (used
by GPS) or quantum mechanics (used in computers or more generally in
every transistor) and bet their lives on thermodynamic theories (by
flying airplanes) don't believe those same scientists when their
findings are less convenient.