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As a current college student at the University of Illinois, I disagree with this article. While my classes do go over laboratory and experimental techniques used in modern biochemical and biological science, a whole lot of it is just pure background and knowledge. Learning how specific enzymes work at a molecular level, step by step, the origins of many of the techniques and how they were developed, how DNA is transcribed by the subunits of the replisome, and many other things are all covered.
Maybe because it's still a fast-developing science the search for knowledge and the ability to question current theories are still very much present, but it's definitely an exception to this trend he's seeing.
I can't speak for fields like business or psychology, but biochemistry very much encourages learning for learning's sake (and I find it fascinating), at least at U of I.
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