# Fear Merchants Should Lose Institutional Authority by Bryant McGill > “[The fear merchants] should lose credibility, platforms, institutional authority, professional standing, and the presumption that they are harmless commentators, because their victims may eventually be the ones sleeping outside while the fear merchant remains comfortably networked, monetized, banked, insured, and online.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Author-supplied exact original:** “Those people should lose credibility, platforms, institutional authority, professional standing, and the presumption that they are harmless commentators, because their victims may eventually be the ones sleeping outside while the fear merchant remains comfortably networked, monetized, banked, insured, and online.” — supplied directly by Bryant McGill for [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]]. - **Source article:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] — Bryant McGill identifies this article as the originating publication for this Reminder. - **Editorial clarification:** Square brackets in the readable Reminder add only the antecedent established by the adjacent author-supplied draft passage; the preceding bullet preserves the exact submitted wording. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] - **Article:** [[articles/How AI Early Adopters Became a Privilege Cult|How AI Early Adopters Became a Privilege Cult]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] - [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] - [[wiki/Digital Divide|Digital Divide]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “[The fear merchants] should lose credibility, platforms, institutional authority, professional standing, and the presumption that they are harmless commentators, because their victims may eventually be the ones sleeping outside while the fear merchant remains comfortably networked, monetized, banked, insured, and online.” — Bryant McGill, The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-fear-merchants-should-lose-institutional-authority ```