I thought the community has matured and got over this sort of thing from trying it last year. I remember seeing thread after thread in summer 2013.
as you say summer last year.. its seasonal.. you will see this cycle repeat each year. there is usually an uptake of people joining into bitcoin this time of year, but the main bit about summer is that kids are at home, not in classrooms, so you will see alot of childish FUD spreading where kids want to get their bitcoin for a dollar (pfft). cant wait till September when the grown ups like many of us get to play around with bitcoin properly again. but take my word on it, you will see this happen again and again.
its just best to be quick to get the fud spreaders proven wrong before the chain reaction of lies spreads to far and lots of people believe it purely because everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet of lies