If you’ve long suspected that something in Western society has gone very wrong the last few years, you’re not alone. This discussion between Matthew Goodwin and Brendan O’Neill is worth a full listen. Incidentally, if you think what they’re talking about only pertains to the UK, you would be seriously incorrect.

Utah teacher, Kim Cutler, had her students eat bugs:

Student: “How come we can’t state our opinion and write that we shouldn’t be eating bugs?”

Cutler: “Because we don’t have any evidence to support it. It’s kind of weird that I gave you a topic where there is only one right answer. We don’t want to eat bugs and it’s gross. But should we be eating bugs? Yeah, because we’re killing the world by raising cows and animals. So we need to, not get rid of cows, but like, try to balance our diet so that not so much of our land is being used to raise cows, cause it’s killing the ozone layer.”

Student: “What if you wanted to – ”

Cutler: “You don’t have any evidence to support it. There’s only one right answer to this essay. And it’s that Americans should be eating bugs. Everyone in the world is eating them, it’s healthy for the environment and there’s just, there’s only one right answer.”

The next time someone tells you that their decisions are based on data & science, either walk in the either direction or call the police.

Incidentally, Ms. Cutler was on her school’s website last year:

But no longer.