I was pretty weirded out by this whole thing. It felt like a throwback to another era of old school yellow journalism a la 'Did you hear those SAVAGES in AFRICA kill their OWN CHILDREN to appease their PAGAN GODS?!?'
Super creepy. Then I remember a few months back, we were hearing about that Ugandan law to kill the gays and jail anyone who had a problem with that. I ain't saying there's a relationship between the two events, but there's certainly been a lot of strange talk about Uganda as of late. On Jan 10, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Gadi Evron <[email protected]> wrote: > The spin of the week catch goes to Brandon K. Thorp, on the James > Randi > Educational Foundation blog in an article titled Child Sacrifice in > Uganda, where he discusses the recent outrage in regard to claims of > witch doctors sacrificing children in Uganda. > > The post is built of three sections, claiming: > 1. That by merely writing on it and repeating it in a few > publications, > it has now become truth. > 2. That evidence is seriously lacking, and what facts are known are > questioned. > 3. That there are consequences to scaring people about witches, > namely, > witch hunts. > > He ties it all together by discussing the bad journalistic work > performed here, from the assumptions made by the reporters who later > insinuate them as evidence, to why the evidence actually provided is > unlikely to hold any water when scrutinized. > > He asks to see what children had actually been murdered, as the claims > made about numbers, even if witch doctors do ritually sacrifice > children, are ridiculous. > > A great work of skepticism, writing and argumentation! I definitely > recommend reading it: > > http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/829-child-sacrifice-in-uganda.html > > Gadi > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
