Or the mass freakout about covid... forcing people to do all sorts of silly health theatre seems to be fine in some circumstances- you can never be too careful when it comes to a politically popular health concern, but somehow (and I admit I don't understand the political angle here) people are saying "oh yeah there's lots of reasons why water can have an oily sheen on top of it". The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, but it's weird to see the doublethink