I'm assuming you never got to the "Afterword" (perhaps due to anger or frustration?), as it is at that point that the author reveals that the entire article up to that point is the exact opposite of what he supports.

This does of course make for the argument that perhaps this style of writing is not suitable for skimming, though I'd agree with another comment on this post that after reading the part about 95% of 3,875,000 equating to approximately 1,000,000, I was definitely more perceptive that something silly was going on.