With the recent frouferaw around CDC changing wastewater measurement metrics to normalize them - which was apparently not as bad as the OP thought - it's important to do two things:
1) remember that verification is important
and
2) that hypervigilance is real and sometimes drives people to make mistakes in favor of protecting themselves from proven bad actors
I do my best to do #1, but #2 does get in the way after being imprisoned in my house for 4 years by Joe Biden and the CDC.