Well-run media outlets like the Washington Post face a difficult challenge: how to explain science to the general public, when both most editors and journalists and a majority of the general public are extremely poorly educated in the ways and language of science.

This broad lack of education opens the door for people like Mr. Wadhwa to write articles about subjects like quantum computing that are wrong in many important ways, rankling people who actually know a lot about the subject, like Aaronson.

Every article in a mainstream publication I've read on a technical subject about which I actually know something is wrong in important ways.

I doubt there's a short-term solution for this problem.