In the context of dinosaurs, that’s a ludicrous argument. The entire field was born of the hype and public thirst for information on the topic.
We’ll see what the facts are as the story develops, but the griping sounds like angry old people wielding their positional power.
You are being intellectually lazy and superficial by not reading the whole tweet and just discarding the argument at the first instant you see something that grates you if taken out of context.