I'm not a huge fan of Jacobson's behavior, and he has made some mistakes, but he's also been very very right on a lot of things.
And while a single paper is a lot more reliable than a single person writing an editorial on an MIT site, it is still a single paper and must be taken as a pointer towards the truth, rather than truth revealed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Z._Jacobson#Critiques_of_...