they became fools

Let me guess, "scientists" -- you want to make some headlines for doing absolutely nothing; you're jealous of meteorologists who can get paid for guessing and being wrong; you're finding some way to justify wasting hours and hours of time thinking.

I got it. Let's make a CNN article about complete speculation and unproveable guesswork. A diamond planet. No, wait. How about a gold planet? Hey, is platinum the in thing this year? Let's guess a platinum planet. No, diamonds are forever.

Idiots.