I think its even bigger than that. Lots of kids into STEM and the sciences seem to grow into adults with some really dismissive views of anything that isn't STE

I think its even bigger than that. Lots of kids into STEM and the sciences seem to grow into adults with some really dismissive views of anything that isn't STEM and follow a fairly simplistic and reductionist approach to explaining the world. Often making grand and sweeping generalizations that sound "sciency" and pretending there's no mystery in the world and that human knowledge in 2016 is near perfect. Its bizarre and makes me wonder what about education created people with this mindset. Is it how we teach the sciences perhaps? It seems science is taught in a way that's just long tirades of endless hero worship, instead from a philosophical perspective of what it can and can't do for us. I also find academics don't often like to discuss failed scientific policies and beliefs of the past nor how science really is its infancy considering out modern system can only track itself back to the Royal Society. There's no unbroken line of progress to Ancient Greece for example. We're really only talking 350 years of effort here, which isn't much in the grand scheme of things, especially when the grand scheme of things is nothing short of 'explaining everything.' I imagine we are due for many more scientific revolutions that will make a lot of modern beliefs seem antiquated. Its arrogant to think otherwise and having a more agnostic view seems like the wisest course here instead of angry know-it-all-ism.