It may be a correlation - I don’t have data - but I have some experience with ivy educated adults rejecting modern medicine and science with scorn for the perceived arrogance of doctors and scientists.
> I have some experience with ivy educated adults rejecting modern medicine
Could they answer basic, and by basic I mean high-school level, chemistry or biology questions? (More pointedly, were they admitted in the free and clear, or are they legacy?)
I’m guessing with high confidence none of the parents who are busy getting their kids sick got even this.