It links to a much more detailed article. Expecting a short radio piece to go into enormous detail is a bit unreasonable, and picking the biggest one - that fire investigators didn't even know how long a normal, non-accelerated fire would take to start - is pretty good at showing just how bad the state of the "art" was/is.
The title of the article was linkbait.
The title seems entirely accurate. People are going to their executions based on old wives' tales.