What a sanctimonious asshole. "Oh, we know what going on because we're the anointed, but Joe Sixpack is just too dumb and too focused on reality TV for us to convince him."
They say the scientists don't know how to communicate with the public. Perhaps its actually because most of the public is unwilling to look up their articles and try to understand them, with the help of classes or textbooks if necessary. The scientists could be communicating just fine for the section of the public that actually bothers to read their articles.