Statistics or references? None are offered. In fact, some of the claims in the article are so ludicrous I can't take them seriously at all. For example: "...

Statistics or references? None are offered. In fact, some of the claims in the article are so ludicrous I can't take them seriously at all. For example: "... so an entire generation of high-school graduates went to college and learned to loathe industry" and "so innovation [in the USA] died, and perhaps nine tenths of the brilliant minds that would have otherwise gone into industry and innovated the hell out of their field, that nine tenths went into the legal profession or the medical field or investment banking.". I just can't take those remarks at face value. I must say though, that the author's claims of disdain for the industry by academia match my experience. The author's complaints about low salaries (relative to law/medicine) in technical fields also match my experience. Where I live (Europe) professors don't have startups on the side, even at the top universities. Different worlds, I suppose.