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I don't think this is technically correct - as Bernstein-Von Mises guarantee under certain conditions that the posterior is independent of the prior after sufficient data is observed.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein%E2%80%93von_Mises_t...

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It was actually "technically correct" - he said "if the number of samples is low".

You're correct about the general case, of course.

The previous comment was edited - the comment I replied to said something along the lines of 'especially when the number of samples are low'

In fairness, I actually edited my reply for clarity, what I had in mind were small samples where the prior ends up dominating.

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