Your use of the past tense makes me think you come from a glorious alternate reality where stupid people didn't literally break western civilization.

In the continutiy I live in, the folk who fall for spoon bending and ESP suppression theories moved on to anti-vacince denialism, hero-worship of a 1980s punchline, and have successfully taken over the USA's department of health by way of a halfwit who just claimed autism is caused by Tylenol.