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At the end of the day, it's very clear this is a story from a young woman as relayed to the author. NYT isn't making any kind of claim otherwise. Additionally,
by bm1362 11y ago
At the end of the day, it's very clear this is a story from a young woman as relayed to the author. NYT isn't making any kind of claim otherwise. Additionally, the snopes article cites the State Department giving warnings about the drug in Colombia, Thailand - snopes only doubts it's prevalence in the US.
- gus_massa 11y agoI have been receiving similar emails with warning in Argentina from years. The story is similar with very few details, and from country to country the usual variation is the name of the shopping mall were the events allegedly happened. A few month ago the newspapers in Argentina begun to report some cases, but without any study that confirm the cases. See for example: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1738748-burundanga-la-droga-que-asusta-a-todos-pero-que-aun-nadie-vio http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1738748-burundanga-la-droga-que-a... (autotraslation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lanacion.com.ar%2F1738748-burundanga-la-droga-que-asusta-a-todos-pero-que-aun-nadie-vio&edit-text=&act=url https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=y&prev... ) I still classify this as a hoax. On a related note, one problem with Wikipedia is that it assumes that the newspapers do some fact checking so they can be used as references, but they sometimes publish stories without any proofs like in this case.
- ptaipale 11y ago> On a related note, one problem with Wikipedia is that it assumes that the newspapers do some fact checking so they can be used as references And not just Wikipedia, of course. Others have the same problem. <rant> People generally tend to trust their preferred sources too much. This seems to be worse in social media, where people have even less exposure to views that are different from their own. </rant>