Stupid is as stupid votes

A quite wonderful own goal by the Daily Heil: serving up a story about academic research that's found right-wingers to be generally less intelligent than left-wingers, only for the rag's indignant readership to then provide further evidence in support of the findings with their comments. It's satisfying to know that laughing at the concept of "conservative think-tanks" and "right-wing intellectuals" is now scientifically justified.

Update: here's Charlie Brooker's take on the extraordinary story, "a chimps' tea party of the damned".

(Thanks to Mhairi for the link.)