The only thing growing in this regard is the level of hysteria and idiocy in the scammers claims. By now aren’t we all supposed to be starving or swimming or dead or something? I’m sure we’ve passed “the point of no return” at least a half dozen times already.
And for that reason, they should lose their credibility and credentials every time they are wrong. They have encouraged average people to think that science is absolute and exact. This is an absolute lie. They lived by the sword, they should die by it too.