MrMind comments on Open thread, Dec. 21 - Dec. 27, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion
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Well... from my point of view, there's a lot of that in the US. And I come from Italy, for Omega's sake, we have news about the Pope every lunch and dinner. I cannot not imagine how the view from Denmark should be.
With this, I don't mean that witchhunting is the answer, just that it can possibly be understood as a transient overshoot, to which the proper response is a transient undershoot.
I would venture a guess that your estimate has a lot to do with what kind of media you read and a fair amount to do with what your baseline is :-/