Nutty as a fruitcake, Naw... It's a natural point to be debated, since "Evolution" IS somewhat of a misnomer for Natural Selection. But I believe he Jones is just plain wrong if he believes this undermines modern Natural-Selection/Genetic-Morphology holdings:
My understanding is that the failure of a single DNA pair can cause insects to exhibit fantastic changes in a single generation. If Wingless insects have experienced wings blinking in and out of existence, it actually means Natural Selection is actually EASIER to occur than traditional Evolutionists imagine. Consider that Darwin's Evolution of the Species predated Mendel's genetic work, let alone Watson and Crick demonstrating how it occured. These findings are entirely consistent with Mendellian genetics and Watson and Crick's, I suspect.
What he is referring to with Drosophila: While legs and wings take many, many genes to code for; there are certain "switching genes" which code for their placement and activation, and the two anatomical structures share a common morphology, like vertibrate fins, wings, legs and arms. Scientists have been able to mutate a single gene pair to cause legs to grow where wings or antennae would grow naturally.
I'm not sure how well Nicola Jones is distorting Whiting's article, but even as described, Whiting seems plausible.