Ebola and other Epidemics, Inadequate Healthcare Threatens Millions

[garbon]

he once made an argument against agnosticism so convincing it helped switch me over to atheism.

[LaCroix]

 

[Eddie Teach]

grumbler is often right. he once made an argument against agnosticism so convincing it helped switch me over to atheism.

He used a jedi mind trick. It works on suggestible people.

[alfred russel]

My point was that we are making fun of Africans with their voodoo doctors and shamans, but in the West we have our own share of lunatics. Or are you saying that homeopathy is not a Western phenomenon?

I don't see how any "Western lunatics" are part of "the rational and scientific West." If they are considered lunatics, they probably aren't part of Western rationality or science.  Your argument seems to be 100% pure rhetorical bullshit.

Martinus' meaning was quite clear to me. The "rational and scientific" adjectives applied to the west were alluding to the stereotype that western democratic societies are rational and scientific while places such as Africa are irrational and superstitious. In a tongue in cheek way, Martinus was pointing out that our societies have irrational and superstitious elements as well. The post was probably primarily motivated to share a ridiculous story he read.

[grumbler]

My point was that we are making fun of Africans with their voodoo doctors and shamans, but in the West we have our own share of lunatics. Or are you saying that homeopathy is not a Western phenomenon?

I don't see how any "Western lunatics" are part of "the rational and scientific West." If they are considered lunatics, they probably aren't part of Western rationality or science.  Your argument seems to be 100% pure rhetorical bullshit.

Martinus' meaning was quite clear to me. The "rational and scientific" adjectives applied to the west were alluding to the stereotype that western democratic societies are rational and scientific while places such as Africa are irrational and superstitious. In a tongue in cheek way, Martinus was pointing out that our societies have irrational and superstitious elements as well. The post was probably primarily motivated to share a ridiculous story he read.

Why am I not surprised that you found "meaning" in what you concede was a troll? 

[Martinus]

It wasn't a troll. It was a sarcastic post but it was not meant to create a negative reaction in the reader - mainly on the account that an average Languish reader would be smart enough to interpret it the way alfred russell did.

The fact that only you, grumbler, thought otherwise, proves that my judgement was correct.

[alfred russel]

Why am I not surprised that you found "meaning" in what you concede was a troll? 

I do know a thing or two about trolling. What martinus posted was not trolling. What you are doing is trolling.

[grumbler]

It wasn't a troll. It was a sarcastic post but it was not meant to create a negative reaction in the reader - mainly on the account that an average Languish reader would be smart enough to interpret it the way alfred russell did.

The fact that only you, grumbler, thought otherwise, proves that my judgement was correct.

So you are saying that it wasn't a troll, but rather a way of making the point (according to AR) that "our societies have irrational and superstitious elements as well?"  That's an incredibly inane "point" to make.  Next, I suppose, you will be expound on the humanitarian instincts of Pol Pot to make the point (which only AR will get) that gravity acts on humans!

[jimmy olsen]

Looks like famine will follow, causing further breakdown of society, followed by further outbreaks of violence and disease.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/08/22/342480343/a-food-crisis-follows-africas-ebola-crisis

[jimmy olsen]

These graphs aren't exactly reassuring.

[viper37]

There's a correlation between cases and death?  How strange...

[Martinus]

There's a correlation between cases and death?  How strange...

The first graph also shows a very strange trend that, when something is happening over time, then cumulatively the more days pass, the more of that thing will have happened...

[jimmy olsen]

 

The slope of the graph in July-August is vastly higher than it was in April to May.

[Razgovory]

he once made an argument against agnosticism so convincing it helped switch me over to atheism.

Yeah, that's sad.

[The Brain]

The slope of the graph in July-August is vastly higher than it was in April to May.

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