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🗓️ 29 July 2014
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Even in developed countries, myths persist about people who have albinism.
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0:00.0 | How much do you know about albinism? |
0:06.3 | Today, we've got a roundup of facts and fiction about the unusual condition, and I can guarantee |
0:11.8 | that some of what you think you know about it is wrong. |
0:15.7 | Our fellow humans born with albinism face a number of difficult challenges, both social |
0:20.4 | and health-related, so it's to all of our advantage to understand the condition correctly. |
0:27.3 | One is right now, Unskeptoid. |
0:35.2 | You're listening to Skeptoid. |
0:36.6 | I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. |
0:40.1 | Albino Facts and Fiction |
0:44.0 | The past decade has brought news of an atrocity, mainly from Africa, the slaughter of albino |
0:49.5 | humans for their body parts for use in ritual magic. |
0:54.0 | These are usually found headless and missing one or more limbs, but sometimes are completely |
0:58.8 | torn apart, missing even internal organs. |
1:02.3 | The reason is, of course, pure unadulterated pseudoscience, we can confidently state that |
1:07.5 | there is no magical benefit to the use of albino body parts, and that's to say nothing |
1:12.9 | of the abhorrence of murder for any purpose. |
1:15.8 | Clearly, there are some fictional beliefs out there concerning the nature of people with |
1:20.2 | albinism, and today we're going to look at some more of these beliefs that might be held |
1:24.5 | even by those of us who are not into black magic. |
1:30.2 | But the use of their body parts in ritual magic is the elephant in the room. |
1:35.5 | Arms and legs are the witch doctors preferred bits. |
1:38.7 | They're used as charms and talismans. |
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