> Edit: In addition, giving into stupid beliefs does the world harm. It promotes further poor thinking and suboptimal choices that hurt other people. (Or even, innocent children, if you want to play that card.) That's why, in as far as we have any responsibility to society, we should fight irrationality.

I agree with you on that point, though of course you walk a fine line - I understand it hasn't been proven yet, but remember in the 90's you would have been called a crackpot for saying the government was listening to your phone calls, etc.