I don't think this is settled fact yet. Writers always tend to write their stories as though every scientific discovery is a set in stone law. Science is open to examination and debate.
“Writers always tend to write their stories as though every scientific discovery is a set in stone law. Science is open to examination and debate.”
The quality of journalism has diminished so much in the past few decades that writers simply swallow new “scientific” theory de jour hook line and sinker as if it were astonishing fact worthy of broadcast to the entire planet.