"The Coddling Of The American Mind" Began Before 2015 (And Jonathan Haidt)

With alternative therapists, when you point out a problem with the evidence, people don't engage with you about it, or read and reference your work. They get into a huff. They refuse to answer calls or email queries. They wave their hands and mutter sciencey words such as "quantum" and "nano". They accuse you of being a paid plant from some big pharma conspiracy. They threaten to sue you. They shout, "What about thalidomide, science boy?", they cry, they call you names, they hold lectures at their trade fairs about how you are a dangerous doctor, they contact and harass your employer, they try to dig up dirt from your personal life, or they actually threaten you with violence (this has all happened to me, and I'm compiling a great collection of stories for a nice documentary, so do keep it coming).

That was written 13 years ago, in the post-Clinton era - after Bill and Hill unleashed fake "medicines" (and their charlatan practitioners) on the world and NewAgers got to work - already exhibiting behavior Clinton supporters now blame on the Trump era: violent, an anti-science agenda, whataboutism, conspiracy-minded, attacking scientists, threatening, pseudoscientific, etc.

America should've recognized how far it's gone down the rabbit hole, when Obama ran with Oprah - a woman who worships at the feet of Shirley MacLaine - and no one screamed "Fraud!"