I agree that if there is a disgruntled employee somewhere - I'm not aware of any here on Fornits - then their advice should be taken in context.
Of course, the only thing worse than that is taking advice directly from a person who has a financial stake in the industry. Personally, I ignore the marketing sites of programs (they are proven false advertisers/hucksters) and also their shills that promote the programs here (such as Whooter).
Once you rule out the industry insiders and industry marketing sites, what's left is the ex-employees, ex-residents and ex-program parents and most importantly watchdog groups/oversight agencies. That's where most of the credible information comes from.
A dead giveaway that you are being scammed is if the person purveying the information provides a link to a program site as their reference of the programs "goodness". That person is actively scamming you using the marketing materials of the program.
Notice all of Whooter's posts rely on information from the program websites with no independent verification. He's in on the scam, folks.