text: Relax. There have always been cranks and pseudoscientists, but they couldn't publicize themselves as easily. Martin Gardner's entertaining Fads and Fallacies In the Name of Science is even available on the web:
  
  http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Martin-Gardner-Fads-and-Fallacies-in-the-Name-of-Science.pdf