"Scientists say" and "researchers say" do an awful lot of work during any science related TV news reports. It'd be nice if it was "scientists/researchers from ... say" or "a recent report/paper from ... says" or some variation of that. It's almost a telltail caveats are not likely to be expressed until people assumed to be "the scientists/researchers" or those assumed to be qualified in those areas comment. I'm fairly sure some scientists/researchers say other things like "I must remember to get bread on the way home" or "this reporter is a knobend". Luckily, with the aid of Google News a person can "type in" the general premise of the TV news segment and find out who said what, why, and when, because the TV news segment didn't say.
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