I think the author's last comment is an important one.

Quote: While we may not agree with the answers outsiders give, none of us should be sanguine when some of the greatest fruits of science are unavailable to most of humankind.

If science cannot be effectively communicated in the vernacular, then to believe scientists because they make some assertion or other without an intelligible vernacular explanation, is akin to faith.

The new god and new priests.