And it will be resisted just as passionately as the ignoranuses have resisted every other truth that has been thrown in their direction.

I hope this science takes hold. The planet depends on it, as does the quality of the human culture on it.

A pandemic of stupidity transmitted by a computer virus sounds too far-fetched to sell as a SciFi plot, but that's because fiction--unlike reality--has to make at least a little bit of sense.