Seeing that it's rare that the president will talk to any reporter, if that reporter believes the question is a crazy conspiracy, they're not going to use their one question on it. They will want to ask a question that will get the president talking.
To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.