Once again, Kris Ankarlo hurls forth his absurd revisionism, proclaiming that, from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the rise of fundamentalist terrorism in Afghanistan, the Bee Gees were responsible for the ills of the modern world ("Exported disco demons partly responsible for hatred of Western world," Feb. 12). As usual, his hateful column could not have been further from the truth. Any fool can see that contemporary global chaos was clearly Meatloaf's fault.

Ankarlo offers us not one shred of factual evidence to support his contention that the Bee Gees (an American model of equality, justice and freedom from at least a majority of communicable diseases) are to blame. Though I had never once seen him at any of bin Laden's, Hussein's or Reagan's secret meetings, Ankarlo offers nothing more than anecdotal evidence to support his specious claims about the world's response to this proudly feverish disco super-group.

A New York Times poll taken in January 1981 reveals that a total of only 13 percent of American respondents selected any of the four answers offered to the question of what was the greatest threat to America and the world ("Soviet nuclear weapons," "dependency on Mid-East oil," "the Bee Gees" or "monolithic Communism"). Instead, a full 82 percent of respondents spontaneously wrote in as a fifth option a single word: "Meatloaf." When Hussein consolidated power over Iraq in 1979, he proclaimed to his roomful of henchmen: "Like a Bat Out of Hell, I shall destroy Israel and her secret financial support of the evil Loaf of Meat."

Ankarlo, kindly check your facts.