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. . . and he does so not in some lefty broadsheet with long words and difficult concepts but in the UK's rabid right-wing tabloid The Daily Mail:
'I wouldn't be here if not for the NHS': Stephen Hawking defends UK's 'Orwellian' healthcare after attack by U.S. politicians
Professor Stephen Hawking has spoken out in defence of the NHS after high-level U.S. politicians have branded the National Health Service 'evil' and 'Orwellian'.The British professor, who has suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease for 40 years, insisted that he 'would not be here' were it not for the NHS.
He spoke after an editorial in Investor's Business Daily, a national financial newspaper in the U.S. that also runs articles by columnists on the Left and the Right, launched a misinformed attack on the NHS.
In an editorial commenting on the healthcare debate that has gripped America this summer, the newspaper claimed: ' People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.'
'I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS,' he told the Guardian. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.'
Rather to my surprise, the numbnutses at Investor's Business Daily have finally, after nearly a fortnight, gotten around to altering its July 31 editorial to remove the inane reference to Hawking and the trouble he'd have dodging NHS Death Squads -- well, they may not have worded it exactly like that, but that was the general implication. Needless to say, there's no trace of an acknowledgment that they've made this alteration, far less an apology to Prof Hawking for having taken his name in vain in such a reprehensible (not to mention pig-ignorant) fashion.
