Well, go back to Copernicus, I think the Catholic Church back then can be accurately described as being on the right.
Then we have the Scopes trial, where they didn't want to believe in evolution and the cigarette smoking isn't bad crowd. Now the anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers and the people running around claiming the earth is 6000 years old..
Seems to be a pattern, no? Conservatives are, by their nature, afraid of change, afraid to think about things differently and with an open mind.