Gratuitous plug: I wrote a blog entry on this subject a while ago. This is part of a much more general pattern that popular media reinforces magical and wishful thinking and direct portrays making conclusions based on the evidence as a bad thing.
Gratuitous plug: I wrote a blog entry on this subject a while ago. This is part of a much more general pattern that popular media reinforces magical and wishful thinking and direct portrays making conclusions based on the evidence as a bad thing.