Well, maybe my complaint about authority is just be hindsight talking. This is because it's not like entanglement has never again been part of scientific research - quantum computers are made of the stuff. Electrons are just not classical objects.

And I think that, if we treat the universe as based on causality (a la Judea Pearl), the hidden variable route ( P(A | B a b) = P(A | a b) ) really is the only relativistic one, if we avoid many worlds. There are three ways for events to be linked: direct causally linked (faster than light), both descendants of a node we know about (hidden variable), or both ancestors of a node we know about (faster than light).