On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:08:43 +0200, Gadi Evron said: > 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.
You have to remember that magical thinking is alive and well in some parts of the world, resulting in the lynching of people: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2319603620080423 http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/06/0082063 "Penis thieves". > 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. Before you get feeling to superior about places where penis theft is taken seriously, consider that the above 3 points regarding magical thinking also apply to a lot of things believed here in the US - just we call them "birthers", "supply side economists", and "fundamentalist Christians" and things like that..
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