[Xmca-l] Re: NEW YORKER: Fact-Resistant Humans (discovered, yes, at the University of Minnesota = GO GOPHERS!)

[mike cole]

Alarming!

On Friday, May 22, 2015, Frank Kessel <kesfam@pdq.net> wrote:

> [image: Borowitz Report] <http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report>BOROWITZ
> REPORT <http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report>
> MAY 12, 2015Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant
> HumansBY ANDY BOROWITZ
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> MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report
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>  Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of
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> fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain
> life, a sobering new study reports.
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> 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.
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> “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.”
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> More worryingly, Logsdon said, “As facts have multiplied, their defenses
> against those facts have only grown more powerful.”
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> 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.
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> 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.
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