That whole concept might have made more sense in the age of more tightly-controlled print media, but nowadays when even outfits like Forbes have guest contribut

That whole concept might have made more sense in the age of more tightly-controlled print media, but nowadays when even outfits like Forbes have guest contributors, not so much. Just because one journalist sucks doesn't mean the next one does, and slagging on the next guy only because the former one did a poor job amounts to a combination of genetic and adhom fallacies. Editors were never intended to be subject matter experts on everything their writers write about - stick to scientific journals if that's the level of assurance you want. (And depending on how you feel about the reproduction crisis, even that might be questionable.)