[simonster]

The author is Bradley Voytek (http://darb.ketyov.com), who is now a professor of neuroscience and should probably know better.

[coke12]

He acknowledges the questionable nature of his blog posts on his website:

> Between June 2011 and August 2011 I worked with my friends over at Uber as their data scientist, writing (what I thought were) amusing, data-driven blog posts (among other, more serious roles).

[zenogais]

I've found a pretty high prevalence of stunted maturity in academia, so it's none too surprising.