Heck, I bet the media over the years covered the crooked cardgame in The Sting more than they covered the pathetic lineup of authors for the NAS report.
If I was looking at two Hollywood movie scripts and one contained the crooked cardgame scene from The Sting and the other contained the crooked scientist list from the USGCRP draft report, I would say the crooked cardgame scene is the much more believable of the two.