If the words hadn’t already been corrupted by a spectacularly unsuccessful military policy, “shock and awe” would probably be the most cogent description of impact craters’ formation.
Even when I agree with her, I don't like it when she interjects herself into the book like this. She's been doing it a lot more, and I suspect it is something she does in the areas where she is weakest on the science.
The problems with the dark matter chapters were entirely different -- an inability to distinguish between what is so basic about the science and the things that are common knowledge outside the field. It's an error in being too close to the material.
This is a very different error, and one I find less forgivable.
