WASHINGTON—Praising the process as yet another miracle of biology that modern medicine chooses to ignore, a gray-lipped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a press conference Wednesday during which he touted the body’s natural ability to transmute lead into gold. “The human body is able to do some incredible things if you consume enough lead,” […]
Me too. I clicked on it before I realized it’s The Onion.
It didn’t get me that much but there were a few seconds of me thinking “he said that? Noooo. I just. Wait, how can? Nooo…”, before I realised it was satire.
I’ve come to understand that satire is a canary in the coal mine for a society. The minute it becomes indescernible from the facts, something has gone seriously awry with society at large.