It has nothing to do with coffee, tobacco and meat per se and everything to do with how coffee, tobacco and meat is prepared for human consumption. It is the pyrolytic processes which form harmane from amino acids.
Explain how we keep treating essential tremor as a disease of the elderly to be managed with CNS depressant drugs, when we have known for decades the disease is entirely caused by a single substance (harmane) which can be mostly avoided by stopping coffee, tobacco and meat consumption?
The author seems to miss that relational algebra was developed for the needs of the databases of the time, i.e. in an effort to optimize reads off spinning iron. Any effort for async is destroyed by blocking fs syscalls.