"Scientists are baffled" is such a worn-out, tiresome media trope. It's a nose-thumbing gesture to sate the trogs and is almost never actually true - even when an unusual discovery is made, there's typically some basis for it or reasonably good guesses about why it happens. #science
News media: Sun rises in the east, and scientists are BAFFLED! Trogs: See! Scientists don't know everything! They're no smarter than me! Scientists: *sigh*
I agree, and I also hate reading headlines about scientists "rushing" or "scrambling" to explain or fix something. No, they're just working on it, and you're trying to drum up ad revenue by misrepresenting it as an emergency or crisis. They're not football players.
For extra LOLs, search Google News for the specific word "baffled". Almost every time that word comes up it's a technology story or a story about scientists being "baffled" by something fairly mundane.
Examples from today: * A glacier losing stability in a warming world * A rapidly moving interstellar object giving off light from the side facing the sun * A trail camera capturing a light source (probably other trail cameras) * Brighter-than-expected objects in the early universe etc.
How very baffling. A related headline word is "quietly," when you want to imply there's a conspiracy afoot, but really something simply got updated without an accompanying press release, marching band, and jet flyover. Drives me nuts.
That just sounds like some news outlet got butthurt that something of some small note happened and nobody alerted them.