Based on my experience this is incorrect. Cooking to, say, a medium-rare and cutting in right away will spill a lot of juice, whereby cooking to below medium-r

Based on my experience this is incorrect. Cooking to, say, a medium-rare and cutting in right away will spill a lot of juice, whereby cooking to below medium-rare and letting it get to the medium-rare temp will leak hardly anything. It's dead simple to reproduce and obvious in practice. I am aware of what SeriousEats is, but this particular article is sensationalist and was written for clicks.