Several decades ago, it wasn't nearly this bad or widespread. Sure, there's always been conspiracies and anti-science sentiments, but the mass adoption made all that crap much more easily accessible to the masses, so it spread like a disease. Instead of everyone getting their news from Walter Cronkite, now they get it from Alex Jones.
Whoops, I left out a phrase. This should read:
"...but the mass adoption of the internet made all that crap much more easily accessible to the masses..."
