"We see such effects in fields ranging from consumer fads (think Atkins—everyone knows a meat-and-cheese diet isn’t healthy for you!), science (like global warming), and technology (VHS beat BETA in the video market, though BETA was a superior machine)."
Such over-simplification made me question the rest of the article as well.
His account isn't "over-simplified". It is exactly wrong. VHS won because VHS was a "superior machine". It could fit an entire movie on a single cassette while the original Beta tapes could only hold an hour.
Agreed. Superior depends on what metric you're measuring by, and the public chose the one most important to them. It is over-simplified about Atkins, however. I'm not going to argue that Atkins is necessarily the best way to eat, but it was ahead of its time in pointing out the problems of refined carbohydrates.
"We see such effects in fields ranging from consumer fads (think Atkins—everyone knows a meat-and-cheese diet isn’t healthy for you!), science (like global warming), and technology (VHS beat BETA in the video market, though BETA was a superior machine)."
Such over-simplification made me question the rest of the article as well.