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Suitably advanced technology is magic and so most people (who don't really know what blood pressure is, nor how it's measured) will be happy to believe that some widget you can plug into your smart phone will do all kinds of stuff.

Also, UK papers are happy to fill their pages with nonsense. They are not saying it's true. They are reporting someone else saying it's true.

I think a lot of people, especially non-technical ones, could have gotten caught up in what I will call the "Apple Innovation" effect. People just assume that because Apple has been a source of innovation in technology in recent years, they can jump across technological barriers just by focusing on it. At least, that is my take.

Probably because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that the amount of skepticism they exhibit is optimal given their different utility functions.