Stephen Hawking: He's Doing Science And He's Still Alive

[bloodyrosemccoy]

I keep wanting to post this, but every time I try to I wind up laughing in a disconcertingly maniacal fashion until I fall down, and the laughs morph indistinguishably into sobs.

My favorite argument ever for why healthcare reform is going to bring about the end of the world has arrived, in the form of an editorial the Investor’s Business Daily.

In a nutshell,* the author notes that if Stephen Hawking lived in the UK, he would be dead.

Because, you see, their National Health Services would have deemed him unworthy and never have given him health care.

Eventually, of course, some more informed soul tapped the editor on the shoulder and discreetly notified him that Stephen Hawking is British, and he corrected the editorial.

But I think it’s already damaged their case a bit, frankly. Top that, daft arguments!


*Har.

Comments

[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

Somebody was making that same Hawking-based argument on my bus home yesterday, and was Very Shocked to have their pontificating disrupted by my pointing out that Hawking is British. The look on his face was BRILLIANT.

...And people wonder why a) I'm for national healthcare, and b) think that a large number of my "fellow Americans" are morons.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of amazed that they actually listened to you on that. I'd half-expect them to snap, "Well, that's YOUR opinion!" when you pointed out he's British.

[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

Jasper and I are pretty well known (to be colossal nerds) on this bus. It also may have helped that I was blatantly reading Science.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Damn, I wish I could have seen that. I don't think I would've been able to keep a straight face.