Ditto.
It would take pages to detail everything that's wrong with this article. I'd buy a ticket to see Bell and Burt Rutan in a room together duking this out.
As far as the number of test flights Spaceship Two will do before carrying paying passengers, I've heard numbers as high as 100. I'm not sure commercial airliners go that far.
And on the DC-X, I know why it crashed and so do the people who designed it. A human error on a landing gear element. The design itself was quite robust.