Following on the heels of complaints to the Broadcasting Authority on the use of fung shui experts to sell new residential developments, your story ('The fung shui victim who became a fung shui master', January 21) could not have been published at a more inappropriate time.
The lack of a funny page or science-fiction section in the Sunday Morning Post may be the reason that prompted the editor who decided to publish it in Your Money section.
The list of clients of fung shui experts usually includes some well-known Hong Kong companies.
But then no one gets fired if he consults a fung shui expert and the business plan goes awry. He can always place the blame on the expert.
Fung shui doesn't deserve even to be mentioned in the same sentence with pseudo-science. It would be an insult to science.
It is hazardous to your financial health if your investment decision is based on purported advice from a fung shui expert, as the subject of your article, Wong Man-chiu, himself can attest. His description 'poor fung shui master' is tautological.
Compared with sacrificing virgins for a better harvest, rearranging furniture or embellishing your office to attain higher profits seems relatively innocuous. But superstition is superstition. The difference between the former and latter is in degree, not in kind.