The Editor,
Re. "Science loses ground to superstition in info age" (BC Views, The Tri-City News).
Tom Fletcher's column hit on a subject that has bothered me for some time. Maybe it is the media's preoccupation with eyeballs but it seems to me that we are getting a lot of media output that gives faux reality the same weighting as scientifically tested data.
We, the public, are still untrained in appreciating the truth free-for-all that the digital world has dumped on us and our educational system is not yet set up to notch up student's B.S. meters. Thus we get public support for almost any conspiracy theory or economic myth, whether scientific or social.
This means we see the repeated return of the global warming Chicken Little performance; the never-ending suggestions that more health care spending will solve our health care issues; that everyone needs a university degree regardless of what it is; that science is usually wrong in the long run; that money obtained from another level of government is free; that "they" are the cause of all my problems; that we do not really need oil to maintain our current life style.
Fletcher has a deserved reputation for telling it how it is. Keep it up.
Jim Knock, Esquimalt
