That is so. The activist group or even hyperventilating profiteer make all the noise that attracts attention to the model. Then they try to form others’ opinions based on the models.
Hey, doesn’t this seem familiar? It seems to me that this sounds a lot like scientism or The ScienceTM.
It is a bit tedious.

Rothbardian_fanatic

econ

All States are Empires of Lies

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I actually don't think it's always their fault. Many of them are just exploring different models. Publishing forecasts based on those models is supposed to establish a baseline to later judge the model against. 

They often aren't asserting that people should act as though the forecast is accurate, but if they get convenient results some activist group will start broadcasting the results far and wide.