I think he was adding on. Talking about how this corruption is erupting all over.

My college once hosted a seminar about the water crisis and how it had been publicized.

He talked about how bad it was that normal residents there began testing water because of how often they made mistakes about it.

So when in turn he was asked about people's involvement in science; he noted how negative it was.

How frankly he thought it was a bad thing. He wanted experts to be the ones to 'study' things.

"Are you a boy or a girl?"