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

[Robert Portvliet <robert.portvliet () gmail com>]

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 <dan () doxpara com> 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 <ge () linuxbox org> 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
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