Can you elaborate a bit? Unsubstantiated drive-by insults aren’t very useful to other readers.
Edit: thanks for the explanation. Note to the several downvoters: you aren’t accomplishing much here by “punishing” innocent unfamiliarity with an in-joke...
It's a joke. Every chapter in the book has a section titled "Fallacies and Pitfalls" describing commonly held beliefs that should be avoided for the topic of that chapter. See for example page 58 here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=cM8mDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...
Edit: thanks for the explanation. Note to the several downvoters: you aren’t accomplishing much here by “punishing” innocent unfamiliarity with an in-joke...