  The answer - they've morphed into sheeple. Sheeple may look like normal people, but their brains have been rewired, so upon close examination they quite often don't even act like normal people. We just returned from a trip to the back of beyond in the Four Corners region, but had to stop on the way up in a larger city on the Front Range of Colorado for supplies. It was an eye opener, even in the grocery store!

The lack of "healthy skepticism" pandemic that has flooded post-modern society is fascinating to me.  Why is it that people have become so accepting of unchallenged fake news and bad ideas?

Ironic that this article appeared in Scientific American, a magazine I used to love back when. Now, it's given in to the god of wokeness, belying the very things that are stated in the article.

It’s ironically through this process of healthy skepticism that trust in science can be regained. By viewing science results through a scientific lens—initially skeptical but allowing beliefs to shift along with the weight of evidence—we can develop the intuition we need to reject sensational headlines but know when a new result is right.  In the meantime, just remember that if it’s interesting, it’s probably wrong.

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