In a ill thought out, incor­rect and frankly insult­ingly wrong art­icle the Investors Busi­ness Daily have lowered even the low stand­ards required by Amer­ican Journ­al­ism.  Amongst the detritus of para­graphs, claim­ing at one point that a group of NHS thugs decides who lives and who dies, comes a legendary statement.

Here it is:

“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.”

For those people who live on the far side of the moon, or the US, there are a couple of mis­takes in that com­ment. Essentially:

1. Stephen Hawk­ing is Brit­ish and lives in the UK.
2. Stephen Hawk­ing is Brit­ish and lives in the UK.

I appre­ci­ate that this is really only one point, but it is such a big one that it was worth men­tion­ing twice.  As one inter­net wag put it, “Well, they prob­ably couldn’t tell he was Brit­ish from his accent!”

Another puts it this way:

Hawk­ing, his face a mask of ter­ror, wisely cov­ers his genitals

while NHS thugs pelt him with fruit. Tra­gic­ally, Hawking’s

con­di­tion could be cured by only an apple a day…

I don’t know much about the cur­rent US President’s plans for the reform­ing of the US health ser­vice, but I do know that before I would com­ment on it I would at least check my basic facts.

Regards,

Basho

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