Another thing is that a lot of the people involved have (or should have) fact-checkers and other staff dedicated to making sure they aren't too far off-base. If for whatever reason they ignore or dismiss those, the best reference sheet in the world isn't going to help them - they'll just ignore or dismiss that, too.
Finally, I suspect there may be some amount of reporting bias at work. Let's face it, most ideas are rubbish. If we filter out the rubbish ideas of the diligent, we're left with their good ideas, which are relatively few, and all the ideas of the others, most of which are rubbish.
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