This post is highly misleading, and is essentially a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229194.

This post is highly misleading, and is essentially a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229194. These claims are not from "Johns Hopkins" as an institution. The instructor making the claims is associated with a rolling-admission adult extension school, and the article discussing them appeared only in the general-purpose undergraduate campus student newspaper, which does not validate the scientific or academic accuracy of instructors' claims. Disclaimer: I'm a JHU alum and former staff member of said student newspaper