with grain of salt

Just got to take it with grain of salt.

Now, you might be tempted to take all of this with grain of salt, given conservatives’ track record of prematurely predicting doom for the health law.

Robert Mills, a spokesman, sent me a statement that he said was from the A.M.A.’s president, Dr. Peter W. Carmel, that read, in part: “Anonymous online opinions of physicians should be taken with grain of salt and should not be a patient’s sole source of information when looking for a new physician.”