But we're all susceptible to suggestion and sensationalism, and some to a greater degree. The fact that this company is paying him millions, and probably making more, creates a perverse incentive to sustain and promote him and his nonsense.
Then we can move on to the fallacy of the infallibility of judgement (which ties in nicely with the quote you provided) that J.S. Mill points out in his arguments against censorship.
If it’s innate that would be interesting but it would be even better for us all if you would share your methods and then we could all benefit.
I would counter that possibly the greatest of all philosophers, Socrates, used this very technique (that now bears his name) to uncover the flaws in someone’s thinking.
So, the question stands.