There was a Popular Mechanics article a few years ago that tried to convey this idea too. Most of the commenters, iIrc, said that the research misunderstood what “uncanny valley” meant–which just underscored the fact that nobody can even agree on a real definition of the term, much less prove it’s real.
Here’s my writeup of that from 2010: http://www.kith.org/journals/jed/2010/03/11/12737.html
