Sentences with phrase «witch doctors»

I'm sure witch doctors had the same attitude toward the scientific method, which is based on testable measurements and observations.

That is why climatologists are likened to modern witch doctors whose predictions might as well be based on throwing bones or numerology, reading the tarot cards, divination of auras...

Mark Steyn keeps a flowing commentary going while addressing a wealth of telling quotes with references and citations from genuine scientists including those true scientists who just happen to be honest climate researchers stuck along in the morass of climate fakers and witch doctors.

Popperians are just happy to watch the freaking witch doctors finally starting to squirm.

Testimony from witch doctors on top of a prolonged steady diet of false information from the mainstream media, as in this typical example from the Telegraph.

To them, the scientists might be just witch doctors trying to make a living off of their magic.

It's easy for the policy makers to believe that climate scientists are witch doctors when to believe otherwise they would have to downplay obvious economic facts, including threats to campaign donations.

The story of witch doctors promising that they can control the weather is as old as civilisation itself.

Inspired in part by period episodic television programs such as Rod Serling's Night Gallery, as well as incorporating French existentialism and absurdist dialogue, Gaines, Gordon and Segade appear in videos in which, among other things, an unemployed woman romances a supernatural being; a man turns to witch doctors following a health insurance hassle; and art curators trapped in an executive board room curate — literally — nightmares drawn from today's economic anxieties.

The celebrated artist's sculptural installation, whose title translates to «All the Lighting Birds Are After Me,» alludes to the Xhosa myth that sees the bird as an evil, vampiric creature, summoned to do the bidding of tribal witch doctors.

«Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it,» he writes, «hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can't tell the politicians from the witch doctors.

Synopsis: Alias, a young albino, goes on the run when witch doctors arrive to harvest his organs for their potions.

This large - scale problem is made worse by local witch doctors that propagate the belief that the body parts of albino children bring good fortune.

The origins of zombie lore in Africa and the Caribbean — voodoo, witch doctors, reanimated corpses — have long been appropriated by the modern media.

«White Shadow,» the first feature from Berlin - based Israeli filmmaker Noaz Deshe, which plays Sundance this weekend having already picked up the Best Debut award in Venice, mired us deep in this quandary, being a story, bruisingly told, set in the horrifying world of «albino hunting» in Tanzania, where local superstitions have led to a lucrative trade in albino body parts believed by witch doctors to have mystical properties.

In a dramatic departure from their traditional approach to medicine, South African witch doctors, known locally as sangomas, are taking part in their country's campaign to promote the use of condoms to combat AIDS.

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Also opens another round of «I am not running although God knows I want to but I won't and I'm not» yawns from soon - unemployed Bloomberg, whose witch doctors must now either sit shiva, find a new gravy train or more ways for Lame - duck Mike to quack.

Witch doctors in the region have been encouraging the belief that if you can get hold of the bones of an albino child, it will make you rich: «Literally, people attack them with a machete, cut off their limbs and leave them to die,» explains Richard.

Midwives aren't witch doctors and doulas are trained.

Our star players are injured, our manager has lost the plot and our medical team are a bunch of witch doctors.

Not with that injury record... Get rid off those witch doctors and sign a whole new medical team first!

Would you invest in a country's medical industries if almost half the people living there believed in witch doctors?

Pulaya medicine men and witch doctors claimed secret and close communion with the spirits of the dead and performed rnantra va darn or sorcery.

Pulaya medicine men and witch doctors claimed secret and close communion with the spirits of the dead and performed mantravadam or sorcery.

In some West African traditions, particularly in the Dagara tribes of Burkina Faso, certain Shamanistic spiritual leaders - sometimes called witch doctors by Westerners - were known to be of homosexual or bisexual orientation.

There is no where in any part of Quran or Sunnah where it says people or youth are to be chained... and kept in dungeons... Thisnis ignorance, arrogance and conspiracy done by ill hearted people in the name of religion when it is by no mean a part of religion... I have seen such cases only at remote poor areas when they have mentally sick youth or people who could be dangerous for others and can not afford to hospitalize are being kept chained like that but not in religious establishments, rather at places where fraud witch doctors who claim that those are possessed...!!!

It's washing the feet of witch doctors in Uganda, even though it terrifies him and he's not a toe guy.

Baker says that as part of the spiritual opposition, local witch doctors have sent snakes when they have ministered in new areas.

Ahh, the magic of first century healers and witch doctors!!!

The pastor's mother is rumoured to visit witch doctors on the side whilst her son preached Jesus in the pulpit.

Dalahäst How is faith in God any different than the faith humans have had in other gods, witch doctors, shamans, or lucky charms?

Books: • The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Publishing a commentary about Bitcoin by an institutional economics professor is as responsible as letting a village witch doctor give lectures on the merits of proton radiation therapy to treat cancer («The Bitcoin myth,» March 3).

If you want to learn about having your daughter throw herself into the volcano, visit a Hawaiian witch doctor.

On Tuesday, Goff received a letter from a witch doctor in Uganda, whom Goff had put on death row.

because parents dunk their child's head in water with a witch doctor present doesn't mean their dead body should be subjected to more silly religious ritual.

I very reluctantly agreed as long as two conditions were met: I must sit at the back and no one must know that the son of a witch doctor was present.

I was born to be a witch doctor in Kenya.

Local young men began to complain that their witch doctor was dying.

He was to become a witch doctor, like his father, but God intervened.

Then a specialist was called in for advice: the shaman, the witch doctor.

Clean drinking water and plumbing helps continue life.in an emergency I'd rather ride in car to hospital than take a donkey to the local witch doctor

Spin your superstitious medieval stories, witch doctor.

I'll be sure to visit my local witch doctor instead of a physician.

I love how you proclaim, like any soothsayer or witch doctor, what is exactly going to happen and what your god is going to do in every instance and even how he thinks and feels — when he doesn't even exist.

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It would be more like you killed his mother and had a witch doctor claim he turned tomato juice into her blood and then froze it on a stick.

c) if i were sick with something i wouldn't know the origin thereof (ergo, e.g. i couldn't sue anyone for reimbursement of health care costs and eventually also for pay for sick days) and i wouldn't have health insurance (where health facilities and workers are available) and barely any or no money, what else would there left for me to do than relying on «online advice», a «witch doctor», and / or praying?

And we know how well religious witch doctor cures and praying work: generally, not at all.