This is not my era or field as a biologist and people should definitely not trust me on the subject. I just meant looking at papers discussing his work I have yet to find that quote. So I do not know if he did or did not say it. I see no discussion of it in papers via google scholar but that is bias

Clodius the pretender? Now that’s just down right cheeky of him.

Commonly attributed to Cicero I was unable to find any hard attribution to him from historians.
However the sentiments are not surprising and speak to a common truth about technology. Now anyone can make a podcast. But people haven’t changed and assume the issue is the young not humanity wholly.