Martin Luther is to blame for everything.
When the West was still West, only one institution was responsible for the truth: the Catholic Church.
The German monk, however, claimed that everyone - and everyone - could discover the truth for themselves in the newly translated Bible.
And if it did not agree with the doctrine preached by the church, so much the worse for the church.
“Here I stand, I can't help it.” Luther was the first lateral thinker.
If today deniers of man-made climate change, "Covidiotes", vaccine opponents, supporters of homeopathy and other "alternative" healing practices - let's briefly call them skeptics - reject the consensus of science and rely on their own sources, their own authorities, their own knowledge called, they stand in the tradition of the reformer.