No, this is not a travel show. John Edward, a 31 year old former dance instructor from Long Island, speaks to the dead. You can't turn on the tube these days without seeing some clown with a room temperature IQ shuffling a tarot deck offering to read your future or scan your mind or connect you with an astral projection. This is exactly the kind of programming one would expect to find on TV in the Middle Ages, if they'd had television then. The steady rise of superstition and mysticism in modern America parallels almost exactly the decline of standards in public education.
Foreign students dominate America's engineering and medical schools.
Our children are not exactly turning away from the scientific method. In too many instances they've never been taught it. Folks, we're headed for the Age of the Moron. The Telegram Publishing Co., Inc.