Doesn't being intellectually dishonest imply that some sort of intellectual thought has been put forward? I think in this case, what we have is a combination of large doses of delusion and willful ignorance.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell