When a culture declines to a point in which it is totally lost, that is, when it cant' find its own way, then the tendency is to grasp at anyone who says they know which direction to go. Even if that person is as blind as everyone else.
Such is the case in this CNN article about a self-described "psychic's tip" that a bomb was aboard a plane. Government employees, being ever careful to cover their hind regions, canceled American Airlines flight 1304 while they used a bomb sniffing dog to search the plane. Of course, no bomb was found and hundreds of people were delayed by the cancellation.
