Comments on: Oprah’s incredible Xmas journey http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/oprahs-incredible-xmas-journey.htm Reviewing scientific paradigms and other general beliefs in the light of the scientific and professional literature Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:57:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Truthseeker http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/oprahs-incredible-xmas-journey.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3739 Truthseeker Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:41:47 +0000 http://paradigmoverthrow.com/blog/?p=353#comment-3739 It sounds cynical, TS. Not at all, WR, you made the point in your comment that all thinking people would make. A rural sex orgy is the least likely activity of poor, underfed people struggling to survive in the countryside and townships of Africa. Media should cover the small businesses of Africa and show Africans in action conquering their challenges. One of the best things of last year was a film someone made on exactly that topic which they took round this country showing it to businessmen and media and the State Department etc. Africans were running clothing factories which had great African styling and colors and they had improved on Starbucks, among other things in the film, which was such a relief from the ignorant reporting that biases Americans against Africa, which is surely racist, we agree. All people with a sense of adventure should get to Sao Tome a small Western island where they speak Portuguese and have discovered oil. You will make your fortune. It sounds cynical, TS. Not at all, WR, you made the point in your comment that all thinking people would make. A rural sex orgy is the least likely activity of poor, underfed people struggling to survive in the countryside and townships of Africa.

Media should cover the small businesses of Africa and show Africans in action conquering their challenges. One of the best things of last year was a film someone made on exactly that topic which they took round this country showing it to businessmen and media and the State Department etc.

Africans were running clothing factories which had great African styling and colors and they had improved on Starbucks, among other things in the film, which was such a relief from the ignorant reporting that biases Americans against Africa, which is surely racist, we agree.

All people with a sense of adventure should get to Sao Tome a small Western island where they speak Portuguese and have discovered oil. You will make your fortune.

]]> By: Wilyretrovirus http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/oprahs-incredible-xmas-journey.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3738 Wilyretrovirus Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:29:29 +0000 http://paradigmoverthrow.com/blog/?p=353#comment-3738 <blockquote> Later, she tells us that she has now discovered her purpose in life, and the reason why she has never married. It is to use her voice to rescue the children of South Africa from the rural sex orgy spreading HIV among their parents </blockquote> It sounds cynical, TS. But, honestly, how in the world do the good white people of the west think that all these rural Africans are being infected with HIV? Maybe Nancy Padian can help us out here?

Later, she tells us that she has now discovered her purpose in life, and the reason why she has never married. It is to use her voice to rescue the children of South Africa from the rural sex orgy spreading HIV among their parents

It sounds cynical, TS. But, honestly, how in the world do the good white people of the west think that all these rural Africans are being infected with HIV? Maybe Nancy Padian can help us out here?

]]> By: Martin Kessler http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/oprahs-incredible-xmas-journey.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3737 Martin Kessler Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:29:53 +0000 http://paradigmoverthrow.com/blog/?p=353#comment-3737 Going along with the mainstream view on HIV/AIDS is the easy thing to do and requires no courage. To take a politically unpopular/incorrect view on AIDS would probably damage (maybe even beyond repair) their very public reputations. If they secretly believed otherwise, they are hypocrites. But that shouldn't surprise most who visit this site. Gay athletes (in sports other than figure skating or diving) rarely if ever come out while they are actively involved in their sports (usually team sports). It would be nice in a perfect world, but we're just not that advanced yet - maybe in a couple of hundred years. Going along with the mainstream view on HIV/AIDS is the easy thing to do and requires no courage. To take a politically unpopular/incorrect view on AIDS would probably damage (maybe even beyond repair) their very public reputations. If they secretly believed otherwise, they are hypocrites. But that shouldn’t surprise most who visit this site. Gay athletes (in sports other than figure skating or diving) rarely if ever come out while they are actively involved in their sports (usually team sports). It would be nice in a perfect world, but we’re just not that advanced yet – maybe in a couple of hundred years.

]]> By: Celia Farber http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/oprahs-incredible-xmas-journey.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3736 Celia Farber Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:45:16 +0000 http://paradigmoverthrow.com/blog/?p=353#comment-3736 My apologies: The show was cancelled at the last moment, and will take place instead early in 2007. My apologies: The show was cancelled at the last moment, and will take place instead early in 2007.

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