"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."
My source, this blog: http://thevanitypress.blogspot.com/2009/08/dare-to-be-stupid.html
Following the link back to the IBD, the passage is gone from the editorial, and all is said is this:
Editor's Note: 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.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=333933006516877
What more can one say about that?
Sheldon
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