Well said, Phil. Perhaps this very well written editorial could be followed by a deeper article on why people shouldn't jump the gun because they read a title or an article by a famous author. Like Sergiy taught me, "A Developer must NOT GUESS! A Developer must know." The only way to know is to do some additional research and conduct your own tests with an open mind.

I've run into similar problems. For example, I've been told by a couple of friend DBAs in the past that we don't have to concern ourselves with properly sizing a database, that SQL Server was built to automatically handle all of that right from the startup of a new server. The information came from a sentence in the front of a book written by a very well known and respected author. People just don't understand that even "experts" like well known authors can make a "mistrake". 😉