Well, there's a scifi author I'm now glad I haven't read...

[orichalcum]

Apparently, Larry Niven is part of a group of 24 science fiction writers who give regular advice to the Department of Homeland Security about potential dangers.

His offered solution to the health care crisis? Spread rumors among the Latino community "that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants."

Yeah, because what America really needs is more people _dead_ because they don't trust their doctors.

You just got placed in the "Orson Scott Card" Box of Shame, Mr. Niven.

Comments

[orewashinanai.livejournal.com]

On a slightly related note, there are actually places in the world where this happens.

On a more related note, guh buh??? WTF???

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Yes, which doesn't make it a good idea!

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Can we tie him down and make him read "Parable of the Sower" and then beat him about the head and neck with it until he realizes that strategies like that end up screwing over the privileged too?

Or, failing that, can I just beat him about the head and neck with _something_? I have been itching to beat up an idiot, this week, and he sounds PERFECT.

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

C'mon down here. We have a plentiful idiot supply.