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Government Study Into Polyphenols Results In Discovery of Jack ShitIt sort of misses the target though, doesn't it? No investigation ever comes up with a conclusion of "jack shit." If they really find "jack shit," they claim they actually found something. Case in point: This absurd article from Hot Air's headlines a few days ago. Juicy headline, extravagant conclusion... no real evidence whatsoever to back it up. Ancient Graves Suggest Human Sacrifice Ummmm... yeah. Or it could imply the jeweled clothing was actually worn by the kids in their actual living life, thus explaining the incredible mystery of how such garments could have been already made when they died. I mean, it's not as if rich/royal/cheiftain-related folks, those buried with lots of precious stones, actually wear such pretty baubles when they're alive. No, apparently such indicators of high status are permitted only for one's burial garb. The rest of the time, the children of warlords walked around in sackcloth adorned with wet auroch-shit like the rest of the population. They were very egalitarian in their actual lifetimes, you see. And of course it's simply beneath consideration that these kids were stricken by a fatal, but lingering, disease, and that their families had lots of time to arrange a funeral for the deaths they knew were coming. I mean, we all know there are no such diseases like that in the modern world; surely then there were none in the prehistoric one, either. I have little doubt that ritual sacrifice occurred in most places, among most peoples, at various times. But are they really asking us to accept as proof of this the fact that the kids here were wearing clothing prepared in advance? Hey -- here's more evidence. The kids were buried in a hole. Now, how did that hole get there, unless the families knew in advance they were scheduled to die? I love this part: Commonly attributed to simultaneous death due to natural disaster or disease, the multiple graves show a composition by age and sex and include severely deformed individuals, indicating that the burials may have been selective. I'm amused at how glibly the article (and the "scientists" it reports on) dismisses the common explanation as being, well, not quite convincing. Natural disasters? Disease in the prehistoric world wiping out entire families? How silly! We know such things are extraodinarily rare -- in fact, I'm scratching my head trying to imagine a single instance of such a farfetched event ever occurring -- and the only plausible explanation is ritual sacrifice of the deformed. When you have eliminated the impossible and all that jazz. | Recent Comments
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