Asking someone if they use dental floss on a fairly regular basis is not brain surgery either. In fact, it's actually dental hygiene, or rather, it's asking a question.
Regardless, a threat is, by by some strange quirk of its very own definition, a threat. Scientists can't figure out why, but were on the edge of finding out. Alas, the funding of the 23 million dollar research project aimed at getting to the bottom of this mystery was run out of DOGE City [see what I did there?] by a heart pumping illegal alien turned into the world's richest man by, of all things, billion dollar funding provided by the taxpayer.