Look, that may be so, but if it is, then they should either omit such a line entirely so as not to mislead their readers, select better language so that we don'

Look, that may be so, but if it is, then they should either omit such a line entirely so as not to mislead their readers, select better language so that we don't collapse concepts which are fundamentally, completely, different from each other, or they could try to educate the public on a distinction which is fundamental to science. I mean, we might as well say that the BBC should just use the words "million" and "billion" interchangeably because most readers have no sense of scale. Bottom line: thanks to this line, the reader is likely to think that new physics has very likely been discovered, when the opposite is the case.