Fixing education will not help people that are already out of school.
Instead of blaming the actual bad party you are trying to blame the schools and the idiots that belive the stupid thing, I am not arguing putting people in jail , I want to have a discussion of ways to keep the "expensive stupid ideas" down, it could be a solution that does not involve laws and governments.
There is a saying in Romanian I am not sure if there is an English equivalent:
"An idiot drops a stone in the lake and 10 geniuses are struggling to find a way to get it out"