I was _taught_ to do this in driving school.
Not that long ago I had some idiot driving the wrong direction, in my lane, and speeding, and was about to have a head on at about 200 km/h. I credit my survival to pulling hard to the right while slamming on the brakes, with the ABS allowing me to steer freely. It put as much space between me and the idiot as possible.
But also, turning often means you're going to enter another lane of traffic with potentially other cars/people/obstacles in there. So blindly swerving can sometimes end up with a much worse collision.
I'm not going to say you should always do X or you should always do Y or always do X + Y. There's a lot of situational conditions on that. But only kind of turning and only kind of stopping is probably not going to work.
Perhaps this is more applicable to our typical driving conditions where we have rain, ice, snow, or all three, on roads for substantial fractions of the year and a sudden change of direction will result in loss of control.
Most of us do not practice the kind of precision high speed reactions necessary to control a car in such situations.