Today, science-deniers shake their fists and rattle their pitchforks at any facts they don’t like. History-deniers ignore eyewitness accounts, documentation and indisputable evidence to spin their own narratives that make them feel good about their biases. The problem is that they can cause serious harm to society, future generations and the country itself. Democracy depends upon an informed populace — meaning informed by facts, not curated and redacted news bites. That’s why we have to pay homage to anything in popular culture that promotes knowledge, not as a sign of elitism, but as a triumph of the human spirit’s thirst for understanding. It is the Olympics for the mind.