The article is a book review, so it's a little hard to tell whether the underlying material cites its source. But the review itself does seem kind of uncritica

The article is a book review, so it's a little hard to tell whether the underlying material cites its source. But the review itself does seem kind of uncritical. I can't tell the position of that anecdote in the book, but putting it front and center of the review seems pretty breathless.