When Crazy Invades: Defection & Denial | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

July 2, 2013

“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.”

- Niels Bohr

The June 30, 2013, USA Today headline blared, 'Crazy ants' invade Southern states, altering ecosystem, and journalist (sic) Lindsay Friedman opened with this declaration: “America's ecosystem is under siege as the ‘crazy ant’ invades the South and displaces other species, including the fire ant.”

(Insert deep sigh here)

Some may wonder why these reddish­brown, eighth of an inch long Nylanderia fulva are called “crazy.” Fortunately, the corporate media is here to explain it’s “because of their unpredictable movements and swarming populations” and a “hankering… for electronics.”

Friedman dutifully digs up someone named Edward LeBrun, a University of Texas research associate who studied the species and published the results in the journal Biological Invasions. From LeBrun we learn that “crazy ants” cause “about $146.5 million in electrical damage a year because millions of ants are electrocuted in small circuits or wires, where they seek warmth.”

(“Crazy” = a journal called Biological Invasions.)

If that’s not crazy enough for you, these “vexatious beasts” also move soil, causing small structures or slabs to tilt and electronics to shut down as moisture accumulates in gaps.”

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