As DANGER ROOM previously reported, a group dubbed the he Network of Concerned Anthropologists was encouraging fellow academics to sign a pledge that would commit them not to work with the military on the human terrain system, or anything else directed related to the War on Terror.
This provoked a lively -- and needed -- debate about the military's newfound love of anthropology.
Not everyone was so happy. Now, somebody has parodied the group with a counter-organization called SCARED, as in "Seriously Concerned Anthropologists for a Ridiculously Enfeebled Defense":
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An anthropologist that refuses to use their skill against al qaeda, are what cowards, ignorant, unprofessional?
Maybe all three.
They are no better than those that witness a mugging and refuse to do anything.
Anthropologist
Ad Magnum
Originally published at https://warintel.blogspot.com/2007/10/confused-anthropologist-deny-terror-nca.html on October 6, 2007.