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Socrates bemoaned those young'ns who had the audacity to read their Homer, instead of memorizing it.
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You're correct that it has been overblown in the past. That does not invalidate what is occurring, doubly so since we have scientific proof now.
You are equating "Old man yells at cloud" to "hundreds of nuclear scientists says cloud of radioactive gas is harmful and here are dozens of papers proving it."
They are not the same thing.