They discovered significant oil reserves there early last year, maybe instead of 'wmd' this time it's going to be witch doctors... ;)
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Dan Kaminsky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
