[Emanation]

Big fat no. The entire article hinges on the misnomer memes are are some how separate entities from the human mind, when they're not.

They are ideas and also our behavior. The notion that the US is less subsceptible to them because we're 'immune' is nonsense. Behaving in some manner will make us continue to behave in some manner until acted upon by a change agent/event/*idea/etc.

A meme is fundementally a type of set of information.

If a population was skeptical of sets of information, that in itself would be categorizable under a set of information, a meme.