Ignorance is bliss

This is a pretty straightforward question. Is it possible to have a world with decent technological advances even if a large percentage of the population(including scientists) believe in things such as the Sun revolving around the Earth or the Earth being flat?
 
This is a pretty straightforward question. Is it possible to have a world with decent technological advances even if a large percentage of the population(including scientists) believe in things such as the Sun revolving around the Earth or the Earth being flat?

What do you mean by decent technological advances?
 
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