Like I said, "popsci, not so much". It's pretty implicit when physicists talk about it with each other -- they understand how to keep it separate, but they won'

Like I said, "popsci, not so much". It's pretty implicit when physicists talk about it with each other -- they understand how to keep it separate, but they won't caveat everything they say. This means that they may keep it implicit when talking in interviews, too. And popular science reporting just loves to say things like "the universe is a hologram!!!" so they are happy to spin it that way. It's not like this lack of context-sensitive speech is specific to physicists either. Programmers do it all the time too.