That's a bit harsh. The article was by Virginia Hughes, who seems a reasonable science writer, who has written for Nature, etc. Fundamentally, that's what science writers do. They learn about new discoveries, figure out what they mean, and explain them to us. There is a lot of bad science writing out there, but I didn't find it to be an example of that.

She has a degree in neuroscience from Brown, so she's not an "English major".