The merits of the advice aside, the foundation of his argument and the headline itself are wrong. What about Platonism? And the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis needs to

The merits of the advice aside, the foundation of his argument and the headline itself are wrong. What about Platonism? And the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis needs to die. I guess this isn't meant to be a serious work of scholarship anyway, with footnotes like, "For the life of me I can’t remember where I read this."