TLDR is symptomatic of our 'immediate', txt spk world.
If it hasn't got a Kardashian rear end or smilie, most people don't take any notice.
You may have been joking here, but if someone, even as well-read, well-qualified and impartial as D Kendrick, came out and said in one sentence that you should take various vitamins (as an ultra-cheap immune booster), you wouldn't take any notice without an explanation. But, now he offers a detailed explanation, it's too long to read!
So we rely on others to read articles like this and pass the information on. Now we're relying on someone else's interpretation and it's open to 'modification'.
In this case, EllieM is spot on, but too often, too many of us rely on 2nd or 3rd hand information which has often been through a propaganda mill.
I feel that we should take we should be accountable for ourselves rather than relying on headlines.