The original blog post have a point in that much of scientific "established fact" springs from prestigious committee with great fanfare, a chain of reasoning is

The original blog post have a point in that much of scientific "established fact" springs from prestigious committee with great fanfare, a chain of reasoning is established, it's cast forth with great force and splashes into a brainless media dissemination apparatus and that's the truth we're stuck with for, give or take, a human lifetime. Though specifically making it an argument about particle physics results in a rather nebulous punching power against something for most of us have very weakly defined. I might digress but cosmologists deserve focal criticism like this more for the cocksure way they've sold dark matter and the age of the universe. Both the phlogiston and the luminiferous aether was discarded after less contradictory observations than we today have against the former.