The Smithsonian mag often makes up stories with a few grains of truth, omits important parts of the story, omits essential information, or just flat out lies, which is why I cancelled years ago.
I subscribed to the Smithsonian Mag in the late 70s ad early 80s. I also subscribed to Scientific American and MIT’s Technology Review. The were all solid journals filled to the brim with excellent, challenging, and informative articles. Then they all went off the rails getting woke, politically correct, and dumbing down their writing to grade school level. I haven’t subscribed to any of them for over twenty years.