I alluded to a career in technical publications in my comment below, and it culminated in managing a group of writers. The bane of my existence were these graduates from college "technical communication" courses who were taught that they needn't learn about or understand what they were writing about; all they had to do was interview engineers and paraphrase what they said.

I sensed that in the article we're critiquing. In her bio, the author claims a geeky fascination with all of science and technology, but claims expertise in nothing particular. She probably did some research on the Internet, and wrote it up for the article.

It didn't take me long to conclude as a pubs manager that I'd much rather coach an engineer to write, and polish the results myself, than to try to educate some liberal arts snot about a complicated technical subject. Give the experts a voice if you want good information.

Good for you for having the integrity to refuse to bullshit about something you knew nothing about.