Put anyone you want in the hot seat. There are still hundreds of other idiots lower down the totem pole to screw things up.
What's more, in this day and age, all it takes is one popular social media topic to make the great masses of ignorant, stupid hoi-polloi believe (or not believe) one thing or another. Prior to that, it was bad reporting in newspapers. Unfortunately, journalists are often no different than the hoi-polloi with a college education, so crap like this gets published instead of kicked out of the newsroom. (It should have stopped at the research stage, but that's asking too much. Have you've ever seen how some researchers think?).
Plus, if anything involves too many people, it doesn't work. Simple as that. Just like an old pushrod V8's simplicity vs. trying to diagnose the 12 vehicle controllers that shut down a modern car's PCM. At what point is mechanical efficiency negated by operational complexity?
