Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact Resistant Humans

[LovelyLadyLux]

I must be in a news reading phase these days but came across this article in the New Yorker. Quite cute and sadly these days IMO very true! Honestly lately I've never seen so much denial and skewing of facts. Philadelphia just had a serious train crash resulting in 8 fatalities as the engineer had it up to 106 mph going around a curve posted at 50mph - YET - the outcry has been that the rail infrastructure needs more $$ to fix it!! NOBODY is concerned the train was going over twice the posted limit!!!

To me this is only the tip of the iceberg I've been seeing. We seem so far removed from being able to see an instance of something and then say what it really is objectively. Found this article cute - yet serious.

Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact Resistant Humans


MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) – Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports.

The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.

“These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information,” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said. “And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive.”

More worryingly, Logsdon said, “As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.”

While scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may have developed the ability to intercept and discard information en route from the auditory nerve to the brain. “The normal functions of human consciousness have been completely nullified,” Logsdon said.

While reaffirming the gloomy assessments of the study, Logsdon held out hope that the threat of fact-resistant humans could be mitigated in the future. “Our research is very preliminary, but it’s possible that they will become more receptive to facts once they are in an environment without food, water, or oxygen,” he said.