This is why I posted about what I'm seeing in the college classes I'm taking. As long as they are doing the shit they are in schools that people are going to go to because of the need for those sheets of paper to get jobs, this is the result we're gonna have. They aren't teaching people to think and reason and concepts that can help them evaluate science when it's presented in popular contexts like the nightly news. They are indoctrinating and creating empty vessels to be filled with whatever the latest line is. It's gonna get worse.
Also, as someone who had to lose a large amount of weight, I can tell you this whole thing applies to that problem too. If you have no reasoning skills and have been coddled you simply are not prepared for the difficult and lifelong task of losing weight. It's much easier to believe popular media about cabbage diets and infrared rays.