Reading this gives a bad feeling that the commonly accepted claim that modern science frontier is too large for a single person to grasp actually applies only t

Reading this gives a bad feeling that the commonly accepted claim that modern science frontier is too large for a single person to grasp actually applies only to obscure depths of mathematics, physics, and maybe chemistry. Anything beyond that could well be 90%+ sham papers like the ones described in the article with the rest being relatively trivial to grok.