I don't see how what the article says and what you say are in conflict. The recommendation used to be "just take aspirin, you won't have a heart attack" and no

I don't see how what the article says and what you say are in conflict. The recommendation used to be "just take aspirin, you won't have a heart attack" and now it's "wait, this could be bad, let's qualify that". He uses this as a lead-in to discuss the concepts of NNT and NNH. It makes sense.