I know the New York Post nailed the Hunter Biden laptop story, but this is buffoonery at best and malevolence at worst:
Look at that headline.
Those evil nuns obviously stuffed dead babies down the toilet, right?
Excavation has begun on a septic tank at a site in Ireland that authorities believe contains the remains of nearly 800 dead babies and children who died at a home for unwed mothers run by Catholic nuns.
Seems absolutely horrible. Lots of people are rightfully angry about it on social media.
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In the light of a great deal of inaccurate commentary about the Tuam site, the Commission considers it important to emphasise what it has established and what it has not established.
The memorial garden site contains human remains which date from the period of the operation of the Tuam Children's Home so it is likely that a large number of the children who died in the Tuam Home are buried there.
The human remains found by the Commission are not in a sewage tank but in a second structure with 20 chambers which was built within the decommissioned large sewage tank.
This thread is particularly enlightening as to the details of how and why these young children died:
The mother's home operated from 1925-1961. The Great Depression and WW2 eras hit Ireland hard, like many other countries. Mortality rates spiked during this time, and babies born to unwed mothers were no exception. Remember that the first antibiotic, penicillin, wasn't discovered until 1928.
Professor Eugene Jordan of the National University of Galway, who has spoken about the Tuam home for many years, reportedly said this about the number of deaths at the home:
When the mortality statistics are adjusted for risk-factors, there is nothing unusual about the number of deaths at the Tuam Children's Home, which are in fact a lot lower than would have been expected. The inferences drawn from raw statistics that infants were mistreated, neglected and murdered is due entirely to the nescience of the scandal propagators, their overcompensation for social deficits and of course the naïve people who take people at face value without realising that seeking notoriety — for certain classes of people - outweighs society's normal requirement for honesty.
Four years ago, he gave a whole lecture on the case as a warning about rewriting history.
But no matter: The media is running with the story, just like it did with the "indigenous graves" story in Canada that turned out to be totally false, but did cause leftists to burn dozens of churches.
Look at the way this video is framed:
And look at how the "objective" Associated Press frames it:
Why the slanted reporting on a story that Forbes called a hoax 11 years ago?
I'm going to give you a long quote so you can understand how insanely stupid and irresponsible the media is being today.
This is from 2014:
...even by normal media standards, recent reports about the bones of 796 babies being found in the septic tank of an Irish orphanage betray a degree of cynicism and irresponsibility rarely surpassed by allegedly reputable news organizations.
Although the media attributed the 'dumped in a septic tank' allegation to Catherine Corless, a local amateur historian, she denies making it. Her attempt to correct the record was reported by the Irish Times newspaper on Saturday (see here) but has been almost entirely ignored by the same global media that so gleefully recycled the original suggestion. That suggestion, which seems to have first surfaced in the Mail on Sunday, a London-based newspaper, reflected appallingly on the Sisters of Bon Secours, the order of Catholic nuns at the center of the scandal. An image was created of satanic depravity: wicked-witch nuns shoveling tiny human forms into a maelstrom of excrement and urine. In reality the odds that anything like this happened are vanishingly small.
Today the Irish Times has published a reader's letter that has further undercut the story. Finbar McCormick, a professor of geography at Queen's University Belfast, sharply admonished the media for describing the children's last resting place as a septic tank. He added: 'The structure as described is much more likely to be a shaft burial vault, a common method of burial used in the recent past and still used today in many part of Europe.
'In the 19th century, deep brick-lined shafts were constructed and covered with a large slab which often doubled as a flatly laid headstone. These were common in 19th-century urban cemeteries…..Such tombs are still used extensively in Mediterranean countries. I recently saw such structures being constructed in a churchyard in Croatia. The shaft was made of concrete blocks, plastered internally and roofed with large concrete slabs.'
Could the nuns have mishandled these burials? Was the construction of a multi-chambered structure inside an old, unused, decommissioned septic field for the interment of infants' remains the best approach?
I don't know.
But I suspect it's better than how the remains of many infants are handled today after they are aborted and sold to the highest bidder.
The point is not that everything at the Tuam home was rainbows and sunshine. I can't speak to how the nuns or the Irish government treated the women or children there.
The point is that the media is purposely excluding evidence, spinning the story to make it sensational, and relying on the testimony/expertise of a single amateur historian, Catherine Corless.
Oh, about her 👇
To add insult to injury, to cover for using this single amateur source, the media sprinkled in emotional appeals.
One such story is that of Margaret O'Connor, a woman who says she had a baby at the home after being raped at age 17. She named the baby Mary and gave her to the nuns. Six months later, she was reportedly told by a nun that the "child of your sin is dead."
As sad as that is, it doesn't prove the original claim that the media was making (or inferring heavily): That Catholic nuns tossed 800 dead babies into their septic system.
Why would international media outlets dredge up a story that is spurious at best and an outright hoax at worst? I can't think of a reason other than an opportunity to get clicks by bashing the Catholic Church.
So to that end:
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