Re:Space Madness! (Score 1)

A statement is true whether or not someone is crazy, educated or not, has a job or not, or is rich or not.

You are trying to classify all statements as being either true or false. But for statements in which the claim has not been verified, we can only attach a "belief" in the statement. This belief is largely derived, not from the content of the statement, but from our belief in the author/speaker of the statement. Of course, belief in this form is also the basis of Science and Religion. I think it's unfair to blame the "education/the media/entertainment" for a perfectly normal and reasonable thing that the humans have been doing for millennia.