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Zorro

(15,733 posts)
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 12:40 PM Mar 2020

New Evidence Indicates Intelligence Not Contagious

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—New evidence uncovered over the past several weeks indicates that intelligence is not contagious, a study by the Centers for Disease Control reports.

In a controlled experiment documented by the study, a seventy-nine-year-old man with intelligence was placed in close proximity to a seventy-three-year-old man without it for a period of several weeks to see if even a trace of his knowledge and expertise could be transmitted.

After weeks of near-constant exposure, however, the seventy-three-year-old man appeared “a hundred per cent asymptomatic” of intelligence, the researchers found. “In terms of facts, data, and wisdom, there was zero community spread,” the report stated.

The researchers, however, left open the possibility that intelligence might be transmissible to other people, just not to the seventy-three-year-old who was the subject of the experiment.

“There is evidence to suggest that this subject has developed a super-immunity to intelligence, making it impossible for even rudimentary information to permeate his extraordinarily thick cranium,” the study indicated.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/new-evidence-indicates-intelligence-not-contagious

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New Evidence Indicates Intelligence Not Contagious (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2020 OP
It would Faux pas Mar 2020 #1
Hope the good doctor sees this! GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 #2
Not only that, but many have built up a great resistance... LakeArenal Mar 2020 #3
It's abundantly evident, though, that stupidity is contagious. Trump's followers prove it. sop Mar 2020 #4
The MAGA hat central scrutinizer Mar 2020 #5

LakeArenal

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3. Not only that, but many have built up a great resistance...
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 12:43 PM
Mar 2020

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