We are very disturbed by the advance of superstition in America; in part it is a direct result of our inferior educational system which has degraded the country severely. Two examples occur at this moment. One is the superb commentary by pilots on the JetBlue incident today, giving enormous and interesting detail on everything from simulator training to the technical differences between a 3500 feet landing by an A320 at LAX and one utilizing the almost 12,000 feet of available runway. By contrast, most of the reporters were stuck on this: but how are the passengers feeling?

Our second example comes from Shrinkwrapped, who made a comment about a recent post of ours regarding the NYT. Here is the NYT’s title for a piece that got Shrinkwrapped’s juices really flowing: Little Difference Found in Schizophrenia Drugs. Here is Shrinkwrapped proposed title for a more accurate article: New Medication for Schizophrenia Offers Major Improvement Over Older Medicines While Presenting Difficult Choices. The Times report was incredibly ignorant and irresponsible — particularly appalling since it is the precise definition of their job NOT to distort the facts they present.

Is it really any wonder that the lower elements of society believe that the New Orleans levees were dynamited to kill blacks, or that the Jews were tipped off not to go to work at the WTC on 9-11, when supposedly responsible and educated reporters haven’t the competence or desire to discuss facts, logic, engineering and science instead of feelings, intuitions and superstitions? It took a lot of work to get to and through the Enlightenment. Shall we allow the shamans of emotion and superstitition to return us to a pre-Enlightenment state?

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