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Indeed. The WODdies' imperviousness to facts and logic is a textbook example of Orwell's "crimestop."

I just looked up "crimestop" and found the newspeak dictonary.

Look what I found under doublethink:

doublethink - The power to hold two completely contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accept both of them. A good example of doublethink in modern society is the war on drugs. If you ask people their opinion on alcohol prohibition in the 1920s, most people would agree that it was a complete failure. People agree that it only caused more crime, it made gangsters rich, it corrupted politicians, and most importantly ... it didn't keep people from drinking. Yet, we have almost the exact same situation today with war on drugs, yet most people think that our modern prohibition is a good idea ... and more than that, they believe that anybody that thinks that the war on drugs isn't a good idea must be completely out of their minds. In order for a person to be effective at doublethink, they must master the art of crimestop.
This word has even made its way into the Merriam-Webster dictionary:

dou·ble·think ('d&-b&l-"thi[ng]k), noun, Date: 1949 : a simultaneous belief in two contradictory ideas.