Twilight Zone is alive and well in their heads.
Well they need to make up things to get more government funding for their “research” and also to sell books, fame etc.
, in other words $$$$ MONEY.
They can’t produce real results in the real world of business so go into government or academia(government funded) and put out wild theories based on movies and science fiction novels and also make up fake threats like global warming.
They are the modern day witch doctors and snake oil salesman and they are laughing all the way to the bank getting millions in grants over their lifetime and some selling millions of books.