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What I found interesting is that the article isn't about speed reading at all: It's an indictment of skimming, not speed reading.
Speed reading the way I learned it is about reading anything from a group of words to a line, paragraph, or even page as a unit, without moving one's eyes. It's not about reading the minimum necessary to extract the key points from a passage: that's skimming.
People shouldn't skim when reading for pleasure, you do lose a lot of what makes a book; but that says nothing about speed reading. As a previous poster noted, one of the goals of speed reading (as a technique and not just trying to read fast) is to increase comprehension and retention.
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