Understood, yes, sometimes.
But there are two problems.
One is the laypeople don't know all the background, so they might end up wasting time, space, and energy posting specious objections which all the *real* practitioners have discarded a long time ago. Over and over again as n00bs join in. (See any crevo thread on FR for examples).
The other is that laypeople often confuse the issue by not knowing the nomenclature -- it is not an "affectation" in the sciences, as it is in postmodern deconstructive liberal arts; rather the language is used in a specific, quite specialized fashion, unique to the discipline. And people from outside that field often mistake the meaning.
Cheers!