Science is about facts, evidences and models, theory. If someone belive in something without critical thinking, was missing one key fact that made science successfull.. and can become propaganda, or even worse, so often the need of so many peoples in something to believe, will transform even the arguments of science in something similar to religious beliefs.
But even religions have a -logic-, ethics and moral, and without become fanatism.
This days, so many claims more or less scientific become propaganda, is not a problem of science, but big parts of societ are missing the capacity to understand ad use the scientific knowledge, and often even the simplest logic about everydays facts..
New iPhones, [...]. It must stop.
Good luck with that. Let's face it, if you give people the choice between phones and continued survival, no competition.
I am hoping that there will be a way to make it so that there is no choice....
When you attempt to take the phones, you will be ripped to pieces while phone-people video the event and upload the results along with insulting memes. Your broken bones will be found slightly deeper than the thick layer of charred bones and odd rectangular objects which, in 100,000 years, will puzzle the scientists of the newly emerged species rattus erectus who will dominate what is left of this planet.