My pet peeve is headlines with ‘might’ in the title. The article then goes on to give no probabilities attached to this hypothetical situation.

You might flip a coin and get heads. You might flip 1 million coins and get heads every time. One has a probability of 50%, the other is so small my calculator returns ‘invalid output’.

If a new piece of information about COVID-19 is backed up by reputable unaffiliated journals from different parts of the world then trust it.

People can publish in journals with dodgy samples and terrible decisions be made. Google Reinhart and Rogoff.

Most of us do not have the scientific knowledge to accurately understand why different experts disagree. Embrace this before sharing secret unknown information that only one scientist believes.