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Spin of the Week: Uganda Child Sacrificle and Witch Doctors
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:08:43 +0200
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.
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