https://boingboing.net/2018/12/06/interview-with-the-astrono...
[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz3qvETKooktNgCvvheuQDw/vid...
Yet this seems to happen much less for, say, chemistry, geology, materials science etc. (nor software questions mercifully)
It's not quite clear why (western?) minds are wired this way. Particularly since chemistry was tied up with mysticism for centuries yet subatomic science is brand new.
But it would be nice if at least professional interviewers would avoid straying into non-sequiturs.
Why is that surprising to you?
It's amusingly similar to the discussions here about astronomy: based on observations and predictions, if one were looking for gotcha journalism, one would probably point a telescope for the gotcha wavelength at the New Yorker.