Academics produce popular non fiction work all the time. You find documentaries on tv, articles in magazines and newspapers, interviews on radio or podcast and so forth. This is usually about well studied areas, without too much controvery, but also as in this case, when work touches current events. That is much needed as the cutting edge of academic work often requires a minmum level of understanding to be able to comprehent. Unfortunatly that often excludes basicly everybody, since it means years of study of that particular field.

Obviously you do not care, as anybody who can not understand that level is according to you not even worth a though, due to being too dumb. Sad to see such incredible arrogance.