At 09:18 7/17/97 -0700, you wrote:
>At 8:48 AM 7/16/97, Martha Bartter wrote:
>
>>The last I heard about that, someone had pretty well proved that the
>>whole scandal had been either invented or exaggerated -- that no group
>>actually like the Ik had even existed.
>
>Good God -- not another Tasaday Incident! This century is miserably
>rich in fancy public baloney. Anybody notice, for example, that the
>corpses of the newly-slain dead in Timsoara during the Bosnian War a
>couple of years ago were in fact a neat row of ancient, yellowed cadavers
>hauled out of the local medical school and morgue for the occasion? I
>*thought* they looked awfully odd at the time, later found confirmation
>in an article in, I think, the Manchester Guardian. Oy. This isn't the
>Information Age. It's the Age of Fakes.
>
>Suzy
>
I guess the main difference between now and, say, the late 19th C
is that the fakes get more validation because the publicity is so
very well done?
Martha Bartter
Truman State University
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