Because we made policy and destroyed people's lives temporarily based on their "findings". Their findings are constantly changing and they are not held accountable for anything they have found that didn't turn out to mean anything, but was used as a reason to take an action.
If we hadn't done anything drastic then whatever, another piece of the puzzle. But their "findings", however political they may be, have created fear porn for everyone, which led to a sheep mentality where if one group shuts down now we have to because we might look bad.
The word LIABILITY comes to mind lately.