We should ask how we would feel when their diseases spread among us and kill us off. This is not to say that all anthropologists are up to no good and that all involvement of first-world types among tribal peoples is a bad thing. I've met some very dedicated and selfless people working in jungles. It has always been so, and it has always come at a cost for the people who do not have plane tickets out, or funding from a university or a government. Years ago, when I told a man in the Brazilian Amazon that I was traveling farther into the jungle, he asked me why I wanted to go there.
Nobody goes there unless they are spying or stealing oil or gold.
Brian Alexander writes for Wired magazine, among others. The massacre seemed to bring out the madness in everyone. The next battle began over which reporters would fit into a Brazilian helicopter headed for Haximu. The press held a lottery for the three positions available, but the reporters from Brazil's two biggest news competitors, A Folha de Sao Paulo and O Globo, were not favored by chance. But as he did so, the reporter from O Globo ran past the security guards and grabbed hold of the photographer's legs.