Unless you are a scientist, you have no idea how difficult it is to communicate even simple ideas. If you want to leave me tongue-tied and speechless, make it perfectly clear that you don't understand the first concept of molecular biology, then ask me what I do.
If a person doesn't understand the first concept of molecular biology, then why would they be talking to a leader in the field about it? I still say a scientist should be accurate in his or her speech in an interview. Let the reader figure it out if the reader is that interested. Instead of saying "the fatty exterior would dry off in the atmosphere of space", a more accurate way of putting it would have been: "the fatty exterior would be worn off by the heat of the sun and the solar wind as it approached earth in space", or "the fatty exterior would've dried or burned up in earth's upper atmosphere" or something to that effect. I'll repeat for a third time that I think it's a poor choice of words for a scientist to assert that an atmosphere is in space. The heliosphere can't really be considered an atmosphere.