Stephen Hawking blasts Investor's Bullshit Daily

Investor's Business Daily is known for editorials so extreme that they would have been previously considered unprintable outside Nazi Germany.

An editorial on July 31 was so far removed from the fact-based world that it's a miracle that it's only now prompting the outrage it so richly deserves. One wonders how this sorryass paper is even surviving at all after this.

This editorial ranted against health care reform and said that physicist Stephen Hawking "wouldn't have a chance in the U.K.", because of Britain's national health care program - known as the National Health Service (NHS).

One major problem with this argument: Hawking is British. He's been covered by Britain's public health system ever since it was created (almost his entire life).

In fact, Hawking has now issued a statement blasting IBD's piece. He said, "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS."

The fact is, if an American of modest means has ALS today, they now have very little chance of living with the disease as long as Hawking has. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are against them.

I just can't believe there aren't more people calling out Investor's Bullshit Daily for not even being able to get its bullshit straight.