I've been yelled at (and I do mean yelled) by students who fervently believe the Earth is flat. Or that dinosaur fossils are a hoax. Or there's no such thing as space. And what shocks me is how pervasive this has all become in such a short period of time. This isn't a few whackos. That post about the RNA in a Novocain shot reads like any amount of nonsense I see family members and acquaintces post on social media on any given day.
We are in the midst of a major intellectual and cultural regression, the likes of which I'm not sure there is a direct comparison. There was a lot of knowledge and skills lost after the fall of Rome, but this is more self imposed. This is a willful embrace of lies and ignorance because social media gave everyone main character syndrome and we have millions of people who are playing the rebellious hero in their own made up little movies.