Letter to the editor: TV’s influence on conspiracy theories

TV may be at fault with the problem we have today with QAnon and other conspiracy theories. Once upon a time, History and the Travel Channel were my favorites. Now they should be renamed Pseudoscience Channels 1 and 2, as they are filled with programs about UFOs, Bigfoot, ghosts, ancient aliens and so on.

It’s OK to watch these programs for their entertainment value, but the problem is that people with “low science aptitude,” to say it mildly, believe this nonsense and thus may begin the slippery slope down the rabbit hole to lizard people, a flat earth and Jewish space lasers.

One UFO program had a military jet chasing at high speed a UFO that was violating U.S. air space and was near a major military base. My answer: You want evidence? Shoot a missile at the sucker! As an outdoors man, I watch the Bigfoot programs for the scenery .

There have been almost 200 episodes of “Ancient Aliens.” I guess aliens, not Egyptians and certainly not Jewish slaves, built the pyramids by levitating the million 2-ton blocks. Personally, if I went to an abandoned prison to look for ghosts, I’d go during the day so I could see them.

To religious people: Aren’t souls/spirits supposed to immediately go to heaven or hell upon death? Why would they escape God’s judgment and then wander the earth for eternity instead?

Lawrence Josephs

Penn Township, Westmoreland County