I didn't see anyone here say "you must not understand how HTTPS works!" or "Security is good, m'kay?". I'll take it in good faith that the comments you quoted are only missing because they got deleted since, or maybe there is some misunderstanding.

If you scroll down the article by Scott Helme, you can see that he does respond to Winer specifically. Here is the link with a fragment that goes to that section of the article:

https://scotthelme.co.uk/https-anti-vaxxers/#davewiner

Since you asked for a quote, here it is:

> It's pretty easy to see that Dave's problem really is with Google here and I disagree with this on many fronts. First, ...

(Read the article to see the rest to avoid copying the whole thing.)