And there was a time when the photo of him next to MacArthur was considered scandalous.

Scientists don't "believe" in the Big Bang Theory, they recognize that it most accurately accounts for the evidence they observe.

If you have evidence that refutes it, there's a Nobel Prize waiting if you can construct a theory with more explanatory power and that describes what came before.

How the fuck should I know?

And fight a cat-and-mouse espionage game against the Russian' 5VR and F58

I guess the copy editor is on vacation. It's MI6, not M16. The article gets it right only in a quote, which I assume was copied and pasted instead of retyped.

The UK's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) was originally Military Intelligence, Section 6 (MI6) and the abbreviation stuck.