I never cease to wonder if articles like this are incredibly cleverly put together, or incredibly stupid. I feel like it would take me so much effort to string

I never cease to wonder if articles like this are incredibly cleverly put together, or incredibly stupid. I feel like it would take me so much effort to string together these unrelated things and try to present them in a faux-scientific manner, with such succinct certainty, in the way this article does. Like how they smartly concede that they're waiting for answers, ... and then they quickly breeze through making a bunch of connections, with references that don't back up what they're saying, as if these are all just 'known' things. It's kinda clever, and I would expect a lot of people to be fooled.