They have no credibility with me anymore.
I find that the meteor monitoring community generally refrains from alarmism. Once we have a few more measurements on it, we may be able to eliminate it as threat. What generally happens is that the initial coarse orbit, based on a few days or weeks of observation allows researchers to back propogate to find past observations that were not noticed at the time. (Happens all the time, the original researcher wasn’t looking for asteriods, but the digitized images are catalogued and stored.) Often a threat can be downgraded or eliminated without any further observations. The odds are that when this object emerges from behind the sun, the longer time baseline will allow enough resolution to eliminate it as a threat immediately. If not a few more years of observations may decide the issue one way or the other.