unfortunately, for a good portion of the population, including
  otherwise very intelligent people, Science=Fact=Literal. If a
  Scientist says it, it's *literally* true. They forget that:
  Scientists are Humans who speak in Metaphors. The thing about a
  metaphor: it takes a lot of existing knowledge in the receiver
  to interpret the logic of the metaphor being used _properly_ and
  without the same internal logic... false connections are easily
  made.