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Re: Spin of the Week: Uganda Child Sacrificle and Witch Doctors
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:35:30 -0500
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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