I was trained in the sciences. Chemistry and physics. I love them. The way that chemistry pushed past the "trust the science, bro" phase of its journey back in the days of "ether" and "phlogiston" made me realise true, proper science is about always asking questions, and checking if a hypothesis is right or wrong, constantly. Even if the established belief in a theory is challenged, it is worth doing a test of that theory.

NdGT is not a proper scientist IMO. He's a science evangelist. He is someone who seems to believe that "if you are an expert, you must be right". He doesn't question the established narrative around any of the sciences. He goes around as a spokesman for science, and thus defends the people and institutions, instead of the process. The process isn't "listen and believe!". It isn't a religion. The process is "question and verify everything, mathematically and empirically, and never stop doing that because you one day may find out we were wrong about something".

He is an astronomer, by education (his masters was astronomy, and his doctorate was through the astronomy dept), and his claim of "astrophysicist" is meh at best. He has admitted he wasn't very deep in the research or lab side for most of his training. To me, that screams "wtf bro". But he doesn't deal with any theory, just observations. It's a wysiwyg field, and he isn't involved in any of the ground breaking phenomenon of the quantum mechanical world. His biggest contribution has been to popularised science, nothing more. And his version of "trust me bro" on most not space related fields does nothing but make what he does know look weaker.