It is a rather enormous patchwork and trying to engage anyone in the field is an exercise in futility.
The field of cosmology, as well as physics, will eventually open its eyes to the reality of alternate possibilties, then likely do its best to ignore the last hundred years, but the sociologists will have a field day with this, for generations to come.
I think it does tie into some deeper cultural issues, such as modeling time as a linear dimension could have only arisen in the Anglo-Saxon paradigm, with its object oriented, linear view of time, Where we see ourselves as distinct entities, moving through the environment, as opposed to southern and eastern views, which are far more cyclical and contextual.
In fact, the whole premise of quantization goes back to the notion of reality being composed of atoms bouncing around, with everything else as emergent, rather than nodes and networks in a more yin/yang dichotomy.
As for Siegel, it is interesting that one of his recent articles;
He wades into the corona virus sourcing issue, taking the natural origins side quite forcefully, even though the actual scientists are coalescing around lab origins. Which is not only outside his field, but puts him in the position of defending a political position, not even a scientific one.
It does seem we live in a world where convention is breaking down and those most committed to it are only getting ever more rigid, defensive and obvious in defending the status quo. As such, it is fruitless to address them directly, because reason is immaterial to their position.
So it is more a matter of gently pushing at the cracks and getting those on the outside thinking.
Think of it as a scab that was healthy flesh and is now gradually peeling away, the more crusted it becomes. You can't just yank it away, so wait and tug on it occasionally, splitting between what is still healthy and what is necrotic.
As for religion, here is something I wrote, trying to dig into some of the cultural and spiritual issues;
https://medium.com/predict/peeling-the-paradigm-1ceab7e774b0
