Letters: Legislature embarrasses Lousiana by legitimizing chemtrail nonsense

It seems the Louisiana Legislature was determined to bury its head in the sand where science is concerned, promoting the conspiracy theory that our government can direct the weather to be more destructive to red states and brainwashing our citizens to promote liberal ideology by dispersing nefarious chemicals into the air via jet engine exhaust from airliners. Of course, these “chemtrails,” as they have been dubbed, are actually the white condensate “contrails” we have seen behind high-flying aircraft since the dawn of the jet age some 75 years ago, the result of hot air meeting cold air at altitude.

Since our ultra-conservative representatives insist on making us a laughingstock by outlawing this simple scientific fact, I thought I would provide a little humorous historical context. Prior to the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903, the vast majority of chemcloud operations were conducted by steam locomotives (remember the old black-and-white photographs of those beasts belching out massive clouds of smoke as they crisscrossed the country?) Once aircraft had taken over geoengineering chemtrail operations more effectively, however, steam locomotives were eventually retired from service.

And thank goodness Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has finally liberated us from more scientific claptrap by exposing the dangers of the vaccines we thought were protecting us from dreaded diseases like smallpox for hundreds of years. No doubt he’ll soon have us back safely in the protective arms of those original scientists, the medieval doctors who understood the true healing mechanism of using leeches to get rid of bad blood. Here’s to our health!

WILLIAM PHILLIPS

retired airline captain

Mandeville