“Everybody wants to be Nostradamus.”
This is science, not fortune telling. And serendipity is a large part of science. Dr. Fleming got his Nobel prize in Medicine for stumbling upon penicillin. It only seems fair to me that Dr. Cannell should someday get his.
You know what?
Bad things are going to happen in the future.
And I'd be willing to bet dollars to donut holes that the bad things that happen won't have been predicted by you or any other "scientific" soothsayer.
Just this week the United Nations admitted that it has been exaggerating the AIDS epidemic for decades... for the children, of course.
That same United Nations is now on the Anthropogenic Global Warming bandwagon, hoping to become a de facto world government by being granted the authority to decide who gets to produce how much carbon dioxide.
Catastrophe science ain't science - it's politics.