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Since when access to scientific knowledge stopped people from believing pseudo-science ?

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/16/rhino-hor...

This article appears to support you. Letting people know that rhino horn is not medicine reduced the numbers of people wanting to buy rhino horn.

Are the main customers for items like this the poor and uneducated, or the wealthier segments of Asian society with plenty of access to modern scientific knowledge?

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if it's analogous to the Dr. Oz / anti-vaccine set in the U.S. Those people have access to all the knowledge they could want, but you still couldn't shake their misguided beliefs out of them.

Rhino horns = illegal and dangerous = very expensive = rich buyers.

I was hoping the introduction of Viagra etc. would stop this nonsense.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/16/rhino-hor...

This article appears to support you. Letting people know that rhino horn is not medicine reduced the numbers of people wanting to buy rhino horn.