While I'd like to agree with him here, if John C Dvorak says it's true, you can bet against it nearly 100% successfully.
Look at some of these doozies... [1]
Look at some of these doozies... [1]
"The severity of the virus from country to country is a reflection of media coverage, not the other way around."
I guess that's the whole Gell-Mann Amnesia thing.
Society as a whole has a major dearth of healthy skepticism - perhaps because a consumerist economy doesn't benefit from skeptics, and more from true believers.