I googled Phil Tetlock (the father in the article) and found out that he’s a professor of Organizational Behavior at Berkeley.
Here’s his website - http://www.fairness.com/resources/relation?relation_id=25537#self-description
And his greatest claim to fame is a study that “proves” that everybody in the world is a racist.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27067-2005Jan21.html
I’m sorry that his daughter died, but he’s certainly got his own agenda here.