Although "I would like to show Galileo our world, I must show him something with great shame. If we look away from the sciences and look at the world around us, we find out something rather pitiful: that the environment we live in is so actively unscientific. Galileo could say: 'I noticed that Jupiter was a ball with moons and not a god in the sky. Tell me what happened to the astrologers?' Why do we still have astrologers? Why can people write [such] books as Worlds in Collision and similar ones with an infinite amount of crazy stuff. [The popularity of such books] shows that there is an environment actively, intensely unscientific. There are talks about telepathy. There is faith-healing galore, all over. There is a whole religion of faith-healing. There is miracle at Lourdes where healing goes on...If [all this] is true, it should be investigated scientifically."

Feynman 1965: The Beat of a Different Drum p 557.

Authority may be a hint as to what the truth is, but is not the source of information. As long as it is possible we should disregard authority whenever the observations disagree with it.

Feynman 1965: The Beat of a Different Drum p 556.