I agree that we are going through some growing pains related to the information age. It is painful to have one's belief system overturned, so when new evidence comes forward, invariably there will be groups of people who band together and declare that they will never change.
Generally speaking, I believe that most humans will tend to choose the reasonable explanation, even when under mild pressure to conform to the traditional view. That is, I believe that our desire to be reasonable is slightly stronger than our desire to uphold the status quo. What this means is that, over the long term, the reasonable explanations will tend to gain wide approval. Eventually, when the reasonable explanations are also the traditional views, reason will have triumphed for good.
SNG