Circling back a bit, the editors of Investor’s Business Daily have updated the online version of their now-infamous Investor’s Business Daily op-ed. “This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK,” reads a correction at the top of the page.
Ok. Well. That’s true. But it also said claimed that the British health care system would have condemned Hawking to an untimely death. Here’s the exact language: “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.” Well Hawking is from the U.K., and the NHS didn’t say that. So they’ve ignored that uncomfortable discrepancy. And, for what it’s worth, they’ve thus far failed to address the small fact that Hawking himself thinks his country’s socialized system did a bang up job.
