That's a great way to avoid having explain your own hypocritical remarksby avoiding the subject. Being hypocritical has nothing to do with whether you believe some superstitious tale or not.
Certainly not a matter of avoiding the subject...rather that of who is receptive to truth or not. Christ himself was selective, He had little to say to the self righteous teachers of the law and when He did speak to them He warned them...”woes” abounded.