Perhaps it is pertinent to remember Schopenhauer's description of the way in which scientific ideas are established:

"New thoughts go through three stages. First they are ridiculed. Then they are violently opposed. Then, finally, they are accepted as being self-evident."

Pentcho

Science Integration Institute wrote:
> "Our beliefs about ourselves in relation to the world around us are the
> roots of our values, and our values determine not only our immediate
> actions, but also, over the course of time, the form of our society. Our
> beliefs are increasingly determined by science. Hence it is at least
> conceivable that what science has been telling us for three hundred
> years about man and his place in nature could be playing by now an
> important role in our lives."
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> - Henry Stapp ("Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics," p. 209)
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