I think you hit the nail on the head, as it were. I think the people that are "scientists" that point their fingers at the masses and claim the people are childish for not accepting their way of seeing things are just as bad as the religious fundimentalists of the world who do the exact same thing. This, I believe, is something that people have in common ... the general feeling that if someone is wrong, then it is not them.
In Psychology (primarily social psychology) there is a phenomenon called the fundamental attribution error, by which most people usualy see their own mistakes (and misdeeds) as being a result of circumstances largely outside their control, and usualy see other peoples' mistakes and misdeeds as a result of something fundamental to that other person's nature (stupid, crazy, evil, duped, etc.). I think that explains most of what goes on in most extremisms (including pro and anti science camps) and to a great extent the problems that the world faces today. Of course, I could be wrong.
I think you bring up some good points. It's easy to point fun at the Kansas schoolboard and the anti-evolutionists or flat earth believers. The opposite extreme can be just as bad though, where people believe anything that they hear as long as it's from someone official-looking with a clipboard and a lab coat
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I think that explains most of what goes on in most extremisms (including pro and anti science camps) and to a great extent the problems that the world faces today.
Of course, I could be wrong.
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