Re: Spin of the Week: Uganda Child Sacrificle and Witch Doctors

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

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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