According to the results released at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago recently, only 74 percent of the people in the U.S. know that the Earth revolves around the Sun. That means 26 percent of the American public is waiting for someone to take advantage of them. Scott puts a lot of the blame for that on occultists and New Agers.

Scott says that optimism, if taken too far, can become a disorder.