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I call it the "boring universe brigade." They go far beyond criticizing fringe science and pseudoscience, tending to also pile onto pretty much anything that is

• carapace 8y ago
  "Planet Without Laughter" by Smullyan https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/smullyan.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/smullyan.html > Once upon a time there was a universe. In this universe there was a planet. On this planet there was virtually no laughter. Nothing like ``humor'' was really known. People never laughed, nor jested, nor kidded, nor joked, nor anything like that. The inhabitants were extremely serious, conscientious, sincere, hard-working, studious, well wishing, and moral. But of humor they knew nothing. All except for a small minority who had some feeling for what humor was. These people occasionally laughed and joked. Their behavior was extremely alarming to everyone else and was regarded as an obviously pathological phenomenon. These few people were called ``laughers,'' and they were promptly hospitalized.