Sarcasm finds medical use in dementia detection

I am not saying that Borough Council does not know sarcasm, but this little paragraph caught my eye.

"People with FTD (frontotemporal dementia) become very gullible and they often part with large amounts of money," he said, adding that one in 4,000 people around the world are afflicted with the condition.

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"The patients with FTD are very literal and they take what is being said as genuine and sincere," said Hodges.

This could be a Borough wide problem since some readers of these blogs often miss the not so subtle sarcasm. The next budget should include a Borough wide testing program.