to help rub out man-in-the-middle
Absolutely not. If you go to a number of public wifi hotspots (such as a KFC near me), it'll try and pass off a dodgy certificate on you the moment you hit an HTTPS site. That's an intentional deliberate MITM.
That is why my website is either HTTP or HTTPS (your choice). Though it seems Google index tools can't handle an "or" choice, so I have it being indexed twice - one with, one without.
Now take a moment to contemplate the nastiness of passing off a certificate to allow the AP to snoop on https, what that entails, and how much it is wilfully breaking the supposed "trust" in the little padlock symbol. No doubt because...piracy...