There is an interesting and all too true quote in the beginning of this book by a J.H. Tilden M.D.:
"It is exceedingly difficult to secure an honest hearing for any criticism of authority. Established beliefs are well nigh invulnerable because they are accorded infallibility by the masses who are educated to believe that they will be damned for thinking, and because of this, few will tolerate opposition of any nature to anything they have been educated to believe. People who have their thinking done for them are always intolerant."
Such DOES appear to be the case here, don't you think?