Science Fiction Mavens Offer Far Out Homeland Security Advice, via Thought Palace
Niven said a good way to help hospitals stem financial losses is to spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants.
"The problem [of hospitals going broke] is hugely exaggerated by illegal aliens who aren’t going to pay for anything anyway," Niven said.
"Do you know how politically incorrect you are?" Pournelle asked.
“I know it may not be possible to use this solution, but it does work,” Niven replied.
We now know the answer to the question: "How politically incorrect do you have to be to have Jerry Pournelle say, 'Do you know how politically incorrect you are?'"
Sci-fi authors saying bigoted or stupid stuff is nothing new, heck it's practically a requirement ... but when Larry went off on his ... uhm ... tangent he was speaking on a panel on the topic "Empowering Citizens with Mobile Phone Technology".
Huh ...
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