To the Editor:July 28, 2021
I was truly dismayed at the rhetoric displayed in the recent SandPaper Feedback essay “Lost Tourism Claims – Hysteria, Not Fact.” As we have seen all too often in recent years, when you don’t have either sound arguments or the facts on your side, you just resort to baseless claims, hyperbole and guttersnipe name-calling. As if endless repetition will somehow make it true. “Hysteria”? Really? Based on what? Looking at the website for those vilified, I see no evidence of hysteria.
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