Today's Daily Dose is brought to us by Ezra Klein of the Washington Post:
Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford. He currently teaches at the University of Cambridge. Oxford and Cambridge have something in common: They're both in England. Which makes this editorial in Investor's Business Daily unfortunate indeed.
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.
Sigh. You could write some long response to the rest of the lies and distortions in that IBD editorial, but the more appropriate reply is to just warn people against ever reading the editorial page in Investor's Business Daily. It's not just that they didn't know that Stephen Hawking was born in England. It's that the underlying point was wrong, as you'll note from the continued existence of Stephen Hawking. They didn't choose an unfortunate example for an accurate point. They simply lied.
1 comment:
Having gone and read the actual article, it seems you'd need double quotes to make any sense of this, or else it's just plagiarism. Also, having gone and read both articles, it would seem that Ezra Klein is in fact quoting another article, which is the stupid one, so perhaps to avoid confusion you could change the 'brought to you by'.
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