creating a culture where superstition and idiocy is rewarded instead of knowledge for its own sake Full disclosure: I'm an Atheist, but I share the some views

creating a culture where superstition and idiocy is rewarded instead of knowledge for its own sake Full disclosure: I'm an Atheist, but I share the some views with Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett with regards to the culture and practices of religion also embodying value which was accrued through a process of cultural evolution by natural selection. What's worse than not having medicine for a sick patient is instead giving them poison or a harmful remedy, like bleeding or leeching. We seem to be replacing one set of dogmatic beliefs which can support toxic mentalities of moral panics and witch-hunting with another set of dogmatic beliefs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_bQTxNT-K8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_bQTxNT-K8 From the Right side of the political spectrum, we see science denial and suppression of information through noise and obfuscation around the areas of biological evolution and climate change. From the Left side of the political spectrum, we see the same thing in the social sciences. There is indeed a closing of the American mind. Ideological adherence is enforced through bullying, logical argument is denied, and science is expected to kow-tow to politics. The West is now struggling with its own form of Lysenkoism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism