Why so much fuss about a blogpost in the guardian? I mean it's a broad public newspaper. Would you, as an experimental physicist, take an article in your local

Why so much fuss about a blogpost in the guardian? I mean it's a broad public newspaper. Would you, as an experimental physicist, take an article in your local newspaper telling you that linear accelerators are bad serious? Why do we computer science guys then care so much about something someone (who seems to be pretty much frustrated with everything) wrote in a nontechnical media outlet?