Getters and Setters are bad OO design? [duplicate]

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You have missed the point. The valid, important bit of that article is:

Don’t ask for the information you need
to do the work; ask the object that
has the information to do the work for
you.

Java-style getter and setter proliferation are symptoms of ignoring this advice.

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