Actually, when you called Schwartz a numbskull, you were quoting Schwartz.
No, I was quoting the reporter quoting Schwartz.
I hvae enough experience with reporters for student papers to know what she wrote, and what Schwartz said, may be entirely different. And this one seems more than ordinarily clueless.
As it happens, I think Schwartz is a bozo. He's done some nice work in the past cataloguing human evolution, but here he's trying to repackage a couple of very old ideas, in a controversial form, to get some notoreity.