The Fool wrote: > > http://www.dailystar.com.lb/12_03_03/art4.asp >
Sounds like they need someone to go in and thoroughly debunk. Example of debunking too long after the fact in an extreme case: http://www.cornerstonemag.com/features/iss098/warnke_response/skeptical.htm http://www.cornerstonemag.com/features/iss098/sellingsatan.htm I remember all sorts of stuff about satanic stuff going around in the early to mid 1980s. Some of it was misinformation originating from people jumping to false conclusions. (The thing that sticks most in my mind is the accusation that the group Santana was a satanic cult band based on the name, ignoring the fact that a member of the band had the last name Santana, and it didn't have any "satanic" meaning in Spanish.) Some of it was probably derived from a little leg-pulling that the wrong people took seriously and repeated as truth, and after a few tellings it had been exaggerated. And I heard a bit of a record played backwards, and there wasn't anything real there -- but someone "interpreting" it said there was. (Even my sister, who was incredibly good at deciphering near-undecipherable REM lyrics, didn't hear anything on the backwards record, and if there had been something, I think she would have picked it up.) Looks like Lebanon is just 20-30 years behind the US on this; I hope they come out of it more quickly. Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
