Remember in May of last year, the story of finding the remains of 200+ Indian children buried on the grounds of a Catholic school from the 1800s in Canada?

The resulting firestorm had the Pope issuing apologies and 68 Churches in Canada were burned.

For a reminder here is an article from CNN.

Well, not a single body has actually been found.

The story is false.

*I accidentally flagged your post wrong.

But I'm glad you posted it here because I wouldn't have seen it on the other board.

Yes, I understand that no actual digging has taken place; however, if you read the entire article (admitted, it's long), you'll also see that based on records from the time, there is no reason to even expect there to be dead bodies buried there.

The original report was 100% speculation based upon an anthropologist's interpretation of what something "could" be, which was then reported by CNN and countless other "news" organizations that "remains have been found"; when they most definitely had not.

The "lie" was that "remains have been found" when they have not.

I did not see a single report from Last Spring/Summer that indicated that this was not proven and was just a "possibility".

It is journalistic malpractice.

Oral tradition that spurred an anthropologist to do a ground penetrating radar survey. Anthropologist then wrote up her results in a manner that supported her purpose for the survey rather than any hard results. Then the media did media things.

3 big fails:
1. Reporting facts that you feel to be.
2. Reporting those feelings as facts in 'journalistic' publications.
3. Reporting that the bodies haven't actually been found when they haven't been looked for.

Why are there stories about kids dieing in these schools? Maybe some one should actually look, with a shovel.