Babyblabbers Are Either Total Fucking Douchehounds Or Brilliant Heirs Of Milgram

Yesterday, Babyblab was mocked mercilessly for their dumbfuck antics, both here and elsewhere (links collected here). Some thought they were just being plain-old goofy dumbfucks, while others thought they were just pretending to be plain-old goofy dumbfucks in order to drum up a bunch of blog traffic.

Well, today they decide to tell us that they were just performing an “experiment in social engineering”, in order to see how ScienceBloggers and the science blogoellipsoid would react to their claims. The idea is supposed to be that they are very wise, jaded veterans of science blogging, and, like, totally above the fray, and everyone who fell for it is, like, so totally PWNED!

One possibility is that they are totally full of shit, and this new claim is no more than the “I was just kidding” kind of back-pedaling that little schoolchildren come up with when they have just embarrassed the shit out of themselves with some kind of stupid insult that falls flat. In this case, the Babyblabbers are childish pathetic dipshits, total fucking douchehounds who don’t even have the balls to stand by their accusations.

The other possibility is that they are now telling the truth, and what we’ve got on our hands is a group of brilliant sociological experimenters, who have truly revealed something fascinating and unexpected about human nature. Who could have ever predicted that if you categorically insult a group of people, people within that group, and some outsiders who loosely asociate themselves with the group, will defend the group from that insult?

That outcome so totally provides a brilliant new insight into group dynamics and collective human behavior, I know that I personally feel as though blinders have been lifted from my eyes. So much novel insight is coursing through my body, it’s just like I dropped a couple hundred milligrams of Ecstasy.