i heart letters to the editor

It must be fun to be on the letters staff of a large newspaper. In
the last two days Wellington's paper, the Dominion Post, has
published a letter from a man wondering why more attention wasn't
being given to smoking as a preventative step/cure for the Bird Flu,
because many of the front-line solders in World War I smoked and
dealt with victims of the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918, "and to
the best of my knowledge none of them died."
The day before, a rather irate reader wrote in to ask why the paper
perpetrated the myth of the American moon landing by publishing a
photo purportedly of the moon taken by the Apollo 17 crew.
"Such a myth might have been useful in protecting western
civilisation with Soviet technology might have been seen to be
superior, but those days are gone."