I like to think that this time period is one long case study showcasing the consequences of ignoring the scientific method. The scientific method is only important, because of the checks it makes to ensure that the results are as close to the truth as possible. It seems that the ego of modern science believes that it can bullshit it's ideas into reality.

I give it a decade and a half before all of these "intellectual" ideas are publicly shunned and despised in the mainstream.