Already by 1992, Michael Crichton warned us that the line between fact and fiction was getting rather blurry.
It’s been done on purpose, by wicked and ungodly people, many of whom are not quite sane. The poison brewed in our colleges and universities always seeps out into the rest of our society, tainting it, then maiming it.
“Educating” ourselves to death… but I guess it depends on what “is” is.