I guess this follows on the trend of how media turns us into mindless killing machines. I'm sure there was a time when "lurid books and stories" were the downfall of civilization, soon followed by cartoons, comics, rock music, TV, heavy metal music, TV, music videos, TV, porn magazines, TV, violent movies, TV, and TV.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
