metro- congratulations on spotting that grammatical inconsistency. I am well versed in Latin, so I hope you will believe that it wasn’t an error. I was making a joke through reference to a popular novel of late and I would expect the word “Illuminati” to have the greatest likelihood of being recognized, while the singular form would not be recognized. I doubt that either of those descriptions fit the real life director of CERN.
My last paragraph was serious. There is no better way in academia to attain funding than to grab the spotlight in any way possible. I don’t believe that the reported findings will overturn physics in any degree.