Strange that no one brings the recent H1N1, maybe because it was a fail at trying to produce mass histeria?.

If he is making you want to quit then you're giving him too much power over you. Ignore him and focus on what is expected from you and don't expect the workplace to be heaven on earth.

the real wtf is why these cargo cult religions around fetish buzzwords exist.

A divide and conquer approach to complexity; which is turning the complex idea/code into several loosely coupled simple building blocks.