Could be. There is a fascination with it though, no doubt about it.
I don’t see this report to be way way out. I just question the wisdom of putting it out there for people to ruminate over.
In an age when people go postal for little or no reason, it doesn’t seem like it would be all that hard for folks to realize it’s just not a good idea to push some people’s buttons like this.
I had a friend back in the 1980s, that heard that the planets were going to line up in the early 1990s, and they were sure the world was coming to an end. He obsessed over this for a decade. He really was afraid of this event. I think it sent him over the edge to the point where he wouldn’t make plans and move on with his life. It was a strange thing to be sure.
Nice thing about FR is you can always scroll past the things that tempt you to put your tinfoil hat on.