The joke is that unlike the JWST Santa Claus actually exists.
This is a common psychological defense mechanism among rationalists, where they acknowledge the fundamental incoherence of their worldview but believe that by hanging a lampshade on it they render it unimportant. No one tell Randall about Godel's incompleteness theorem.
Randall thinks it is very important for science to be accurately portrayed in movies.
Randall used to make fun of the kind of people who learn Lojban.
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